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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journal or Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent

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within two miles of this Town seve-
-ral Large and elegant Buildings made
their appearance, which after passing
through more than 100 miles of Wil/-
-derness where there were but a few
stragling Cabbons to be seen, where
enlivenings, the town of Bath

stands on
a low piece of Ground near on the
North Side of Conhocton Creek consisting of
about 60 dwellings some of which are
no discredit to the place, here we fed
our Horses 6 miles, the Road from mud
Creek runs pretty much under the
South side of a Mountain is in places
Stony, and other places very Miry
the and Land thin at Bath we council
led enquired of with some knowing men which
way we had better take for the best
to go to Niagara haveing it in
prospect to go through Williams-
-burgh
it being out nearest Rout,
but they informed us there was only
a small Indian path that way and
that we had better go by the way of