over, on which there were three two remarkable
eminences the first was so thickly enclosed
with Hemlock that it afforded very little
Prospect, beneath our feet, tho through some openings the top of the mountains around appeared the other was Just as you we be-
-gan to defend from off the Lawrel Hill.
This Prospect was truly grand, we appeared
to be above the tops of the Allegenies, which
rose up in a very romantick and wild
appearance, the View was very extensive
and these ellevations being white with snow appeared to be almost
without Timber, so that with the help of fan-
-cy they looked like improved Farms, hav-
-ing many places the appearance of square
Fields, with hedge rows, and divisions, but
I have no expectation that these inhospital
regions will ever be a the habitation of man for any
thing but for the Wild Beasts of the Forest and the
Fowls of the Air, fed at the foot of the Laurel
hill 9 miles in the snow, there being no house, here our
Road led us down a beautiful Branch of the
Lycoming tho very much choaked with
drift wood, some of our company had the
curiosity to count how many times we
crossed it in eight miles, where it united
with the main branch, and the made it about
28 times, and the Lycoming itself we Crossed