Bridgeport

to that said place, the face of the Coun
-try has no remarkable variation, it is
all the way a continual succession of hills
tho not so high and steep as about Bridge-
-port, the Land gradually decreased in
its fertility, is all the way settled tho thinly, some
fields of Wheat and rye looked very well, yet
many others were poor, was generally heavy
Loaded with timber; the greatest body of
which was White Oak, Some Sugar Maple
along the low ground, yet the further to-
-wards Pittsburgh the scarcer, I have seen next
to no pine since I came over the Moun-
-tains; some Chesnut in places; but rails
are mostly made of White Oak; as are
there houses, — We had every little prospect
of Pittsburgh, until we arrived near by,
the Town stands in a beautiful plain
surrounded by very high hills, just
about the Junktion of the Allegeny and
Monongahely Rivers, Which Rivers when
united make the Ohio, we descended a very
steep hill or Mountain to the Mononga-
-hela, not fit for any Wagon to go up, or down,
though they often pass it, the river flows gently along