12 feet high, having received seed from
the
neighboring trees, which sprouted and took
root, have large
trees of two or three feet
over growing on them, Three or four such
trees we have seen growing on one rock, with
their roots spread down its
sides ten or more
feet, untill they enter the ground and have
grown
firm therein, so that the sides of the
rocks were bound with them, like
so many
large ropes or cables. I think we saw no improvement for
20
miles. We arrived at Broken Straw
Creek in the
evening, where we found plenty of pasture
for our
horses, and a cabin the owner of which kindly let us
have
quarters, After partaking of our own provi-
sion, we lay on the floor to
take rest, but the night
being cold and the cabin open, we often had to
use
and renew our fire.
Rode seven miles down the east side
of Broken
Straw to the Alleghany
river. The bottoms
on the creek were rich and beautifully
coated with a
luxurient vegetation.
We passed several sugar camps, where the Indi
ans come in the season to
make the maple sugar
though more than twenty miles from their
village.
But having plenty of good canoes they convey with
facility their kettles
and implements for making
sugar, down the river and up this creek to
the
camps. About noon we arrived at Conewango