rout without taking the least notice of their fallen
companion.

In that neighbourhood many friends had sold
their plantations, and had gone to reside in Upper
Canada, where they had each a grant of 2 or 300
acres from the British Government

, without fur-
ther expense than the fees of office, which are very
small, as already noticed.

12th Month, 23d.

I came this day to Miller's
Tavern

, where, in the evening, I observed a hun-
ter exercising himself in shooting at a mark, with
his rifle gun. The mark at which he shot, was a
lighted candle. The accounts that are given of
the expertness of these shooters, are almost in-
credible. Most of this day's journey was through
a rough, stony country, very little of it being in a
state of cultivation; but the sides of the mountains
were mostly covered with the flowering laurel; and
the streams of the Mahony were seen winding
along the vallies. At the tavern where I dined, there
was a hunter who, the landlord said, had shot one
hundred deer that season.

12th Month, 24th.

I came on with J. M. to a
German tavern, about 6 miles from Hamburg

,
where we lodged. At this house I found but one
person who could speak English, and he being
out when I rose in the morning, I was unable to
make the family understand what I said to them.