quantity of oak of various kinds some
sugar maple & c. Much of this stage the
road was very rough, rocky & stony. From
thence to connalds Ville a small
town on the Yoxhiogeny, 14 miles. The
most of this stage was poor, and mount-
ainous, and but thinly settled except
within 3 or 4 miles of the river after
we left the chesnut ridge. We all took
notice when on the Alleganies, and for
many miles on this side how very back-
ward the trees were; when we left
home they were a puting out fast
and the weather being warm they
made rapid progress; yet this morn-
ing we remarked the but of the
whiteoak and chesnut were not
formed into leaves so as to make an
appearace, yet the same day as we decend
ed from the chesnut ridge the trees