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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journal, Visit to Indians in New York State, v.1

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where they have a fine saw mill sup
plied by a lively stream calld tumbling
Run--there is a good deal of Hemlock
in this Gap and the Mountain sides are
also timberd tho a Continued Pile of [Rocks?]
& very steep--we found riding this morn
unpleasantly cold & their Beans and
tender vegetables are quite killd with
Frost of which they have had there.
Breakfasted at Gilberts

Tavern 7 miles &
there crossd the Tuscarora Mountain & at its foot
the Schulkill--then the Locust Mountain
& at the bottom two Branches
of Little Schulkill or Temogua--next
went over the Broad Mountain & then the
Mochanoy--the largest of all the forego
ing--they & the intervening vales are
covered with Chesnut W Oak White & Yel Pines
Hemlock & Locusts and in some places
Timberd very finely--corn, Buckwheat,
&c. killd with Frost--at the Bottom of
Mockanoy Mountain runs Cattowessey
Creek & along its Edge for a great distance
was a Dug Road which though far from