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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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Geneva

, a small Town on the
14.Seneca Lake, about 14 Miles;
where we lodged.

This Lake and the Cayuga
are said to be nearly equal in
Dimensions; being about 42
miles in Length; and from
one and an half, to four in
Bredth: we rode several Miles
up its Banks, and the Wind
being high and setting towards
us, the Rolling of a large
and troubled water, the dash-
ing of the Billows, sometimes
within a yard of our Horses feet,
afforded as an agreeable Sensation
both to the Eye and Ear.

At this place we had the
Com-