entertainment very pleasant. the Woman
of this house is an
agreeable, obliging, tidy
Person & made us heartily welcome. In
the morng we went with a young man to the
Fish Basket were we took out I
believe
4 or 5 Doz. Chiefly Trout, we went in a Canoe
ab. 40 feet in
length--the first I had been in--
13th.
fording it a great many (perhaps 30)
times in about 22 miles where it heads
in the Alleghany Mountain, which
we here crossd over as this Mountain
is doubtless very high as we have been
now more than two Days riding up the
Waters of Pine Creek which are
rapid
in their Descent yet heads here. Tho.
Stewardson also told us that not only
Pine Creek, but the Sinnemahoning creek [?] with Pine
Creek empty up the Susquehanna
Gennesee
& Allegany Rivers all head within a little
Distance of our place of crossing (perhaps a circle of 4 Miles)--that
it is calld the highest Land in Pennsylvania
and this Mountain the Back Bone of
America--we found it muddy & Stony
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Took our Course this Morng on Kings Road & up Pine
Creek
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times in about 22 miles where it heads
in the Alleghany Mountain
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we here crossd over as this Mountain
is doubtless very high as we have been
now more than two Days riding up the
Waters of Pine Creek
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in their Descent yet heads here. Tho.
Stewardson
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Pine Creek
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& Allegany
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Distance of our place of crossing (perhaps a circle of 4 Miles)--that
it is calld the highest Land in Pennsylvania
and this Mountain the Back Bone of
America--we found it muddy & Stony