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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journal or Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent

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and Cloathed with an Admirable load
of Timber, so that a person who have has not
been acquainted with such an Appearance
would scarcely be able to form a Just Idea.
We now then mounted, the Laural Hill, which proved
Very high. we first passed through a Ches[t]-
- nut Ridge about 2m then entred a
Vast Forrest of Hemloch, Spruce &c
so thick that tho a clear day yet it ap-
-peared like the Dusk of the Even-
-ing, we presently in a few miles
came unto passed through a very great Quantity
of Sugar Maple, many of them from
2 to 3 or 3½ feet over 40, 50, and 60
feet fit for Sawing, also a vast Quanty
of beach and Berch, fed at the
Blockhouse

9 miles on a Branch
of Pine Creek, from thence to
a Branch of Tyoag River where
we [?] 10 miles thence to Lambs
on the side of sd. River 15 miles