>so that it was difficult getting along,
over
the Woods continuing remarkably thick
of under stuff, and abundances
of wind fall Timber that it was a trying day
to ride, for near
20 miles of our road was
through a Beech and Sugar Maple Land, which
is mostly deep rich soil, and wet, much
of the way was very swampy, so
that be-
-tween the snow and the Mud, we were
in a wet dirty condition,
and the pros-
-pect of siting down when Night came, upon
the Snow
without Shelter looked very try-
-ing, yet we went on pretty Chearful,
tak-
-ing a bit of Victuals in our hands wet
and could as we were,
while our horses
eat their Corn out of pieces of Bark
that Lay in
places by our path, when
Evening came we espyed a Large Rock,
near the
Road, which projected 6 or 7
feet over at one side and the Back part
sufficiently secured from the Storm,
have upon viewing it we concluded to
take
up our Quarters some of us went to gather-
-ing Wood, which was
wet and Snowy, but
to our great disappointment, after we
had got our
time so forward of the blaize
through an accident by an accident it was