Tears, feeling thankful that we had
it in our Power thus far to admini-
-ster relief, we cheerfully proceeded on
our Journey, hoping the large Creek
ahead would be fordable, but on our
arrival our hopes appeared frustrat
-ed, for it was very high and appeard
still to be rising, and it was too wide
to make a Bridge aCross by falling a Tree,
we explored the stream up
and down but discovered no place
more eligiable than the common
fording, and there, tho not much
above belly deep, we believed not
safe to pass, by reason of its great
rapidity, and some 20 or 30 pearches
below a mightily mightiy fall of perhaps 50 or
60 feet, to sit down by it to wait for
the Water to fall, was trying, as and their
was no house nigher than 12 miles
and we had but Just Provision with