last evening, we took our departure, being willing
to leave this dear place, having paid three shillings a
meal, four shillings for each horse at very coarse hay,
fifteen shillings a bushel for corn, and yesterday fifteen
shillings a bushel for oats.

We crossed French Creek, and for about twelve
miles had a stony road, and through a poor country,
when we came to a rich bottom on a small stream,
where we found plenty of pasture, being the first
we had seen in the woods since we left home,

About six miles we came to a house near Oil
Creek, the second we have seen since leaving Frank-
lin

. This is the most desirable spot we have seen
for many miles back - a fine fertile bottom on
the creek with suitable plough land, a large stream
not far distant, and a noble spring just by the
door, large enough to turn a mill.

Here we put up for the night, and with some concern turned
our horses loose to pasture in the woods without
any enclosure, for the first time since leaving
home. We lodged pretty comfortably on our blan-
kets. Oil Creek is so termed from an oily
fluid, collected from its surface, arrising either
from springs near its margin, or from diferent
parts of the creek, It is called Seneca oil, [because]
it resembles the Seneca or British oil in smell.

We were informed that one man gathered
three barrels last year which sold at Pittsburgh