12th Month, 4th.

I travelled this day mostly
through the woods, and met with some Indian
hunters, who behaved with civility. On one large
tree I saw an Indian painting that had been re-
cently done. The figures were, Indians, bows
and arrows, and deer with arrows pierced through
the neck. The colours were chiefly black and
red, upon the white ground of the tree where the
bark was taken off. In passing through these
woods I saw divers very fine and lofty pines; some
of them were 12 or 14 feet in circumference, and,
I suppose, not less than 170 feet in hight. I saw
many which had been blown down, and, in their
fall, had, with their roots, torn up mounds of
earth of considerable height. At night I came to
Batavia

, and took up my quarters at the house of
J. E. and his brother, where I was kindly and
generously entertained. We had part of a fine
haunch of venison for supper, which they told me
they had bought of the Indians at 1 1/2d. per lb. and
which was the regular sum paid tor the best parts
of the fattest deer.

In the centre of a good room, in which I slept,
was fixed one of the most beautiful and curious
clocks I have ever seen. It was in the form of
an elegant mahogany pillar, on the capital of which
were four faces. On one of them was an orrery,
shewing the motions of the earth and planets
round the sun. On another face were marked