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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Travels in Some Parts of North America

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Observing something very wild and singular in the
countenance of an infant, which the friend's wife
was nursing on her lap, I inquired if it was her
own; on which she informed me it was the child of
an Indian, and that she had taken charge of it.

After breakfast I attended Cattawessy monthly
meeting

. Here I took up my quarters at J. L's,
a friend I had before been acquainted with.
J. L. and some of his neighbors were endeavour-
ing to dispose of their property at Cattawessy,
with a view of removing to the Ohio, the tide of
emigration now setting in strongly that way. Gene-
rally speaking, it is observable that local attach-
ments are very slight in this country.

12th Month, 22d.

I came to Roaring Creek

,
and attended the meeting there. Afterwards I
spent the afternoon and lodged at W. P's, having
been kindly invited to his house, by him, when at
J. L.'s. A neighbour of P.'s told us, that, some-
time before, when hunting deer with his dog and
rifle gun, he was suddenly alarmed by a large wolf
running by him. On presenting his gun, he observed
a considerable number following after as fast as
they could run, being in all 17 large wolves. They
all passed by without taking the least notice of
him; however he fired at the last of them, and
killed him on the spot; the rest pursuing their