Riding two Weeks difference in the Season.
When on the Chesnut hill there is one of the most
extensive prospects that is to be met with
in traveling, both to the North, to the
West, and to the South, I had no doubt but the View
was of 50 miles extent, it was not so de-
lightful as some I have seen, for want of a
lofty mountain rising 10 or more miles in
front, but it was Chequered with many Plan-
-tations: in every direction, the View look
-ed like an extensive plain, but when
we came to the traverse it, we found many
Steep Hills, but tho no Mountain; neither is
there any to the Westward in the United
States equal to those we have Crossed. We
lodged with our kind friend Thomas Gibson

on the Bank of the River. 41 miles

7th

a pleasant day, went to my Kinsman’s
Reese Cadwalader

s, near BrownsVille on
the Monongahala, we Crossed the Yoxge
Yoxhiogeny in a boat it was about 6 feet
deep and perhaps 150 yards wide, in about
half a mile after we crossed the River, we
passed by a Merchant Mill erected on a
very Curious Seat, the stream was small,
but had a natural perpendicular fall over