Crossing this stream we ascended the
Steepest hill we have met with since we
left home, it is admirable that so many
Wagons which pass this road, should be able to get
up it, I suppose we have passed by 20 this
this day, mostly with families going to new
Countries, a number of which were Crowded
with Children; 17 people of different descrip-
-tions belonged to one wagon. — when I view-
-ed the hills and mountains about this River,
I was struck with admiration that it ever found
a way through them to the Susquehanna, but
I will assure my readers that its meanders
are very various, and serpentine, some 5 or 6 miles after we
Crossed it this stream we had the River nearby on each
hand perhaps not more than half a mile a-
-part. we took up our Quarters at one
Hartley

’s near the its banks, of said river, he has a valuable
plantation, and pretily situated. most
of this days ride has been through a
very broken, poor, and thinly settled Coun-
-try. — 38 miles

5th

Went 6 miles up the Juniatta, through
a rough, Mountainous Country to Bedford

,
having about one mile back crossed the