come to their encampments where their
wives were sitting with a number of
small children beside them, haveing been
about a month on their Journey thus far
and I suppos'd it would take them near
another month to get thro' to the Boat
able waters of the Allegany -- The men
cut the road: open about 2 miles pr.
day, and every few days mov'd their encamp-
ments their property being drawn on
sleds by Oxen -- The women were com
plaining their provisions were nearly
exhausted & I thought indeed they had a
dull prospect before them, going into a
new Countrey where little could be had
but what they could obtain by hunting.

After traveling down this Rapid stream
12 or 14 miles, some part of the way
good Land and several smaller streams
emtying in furnishing abundand opper
tunity for water works we came to the
Great Elk lick at which place I was
inform'd a white man had killed &
salted up 14 Barrels of Elk meat last
Fall -- It appeard to be a small pond
about fifty or sixty yards in circumferance