Here the Holland company is erect-
ing a grist mill, a Saw mill being
already put up, tho’ there are but
few houses within 20 miles. We have
had a cut road
left Pittsburg to this place, which now
ending we entered the wilderness
without any path; a number of
trees being marked last fall, they
were now to be our guide; It was
a thick wood we had to pass through with
a great quantity of brush and young
stuff in the way. Our journey this
day was truly wild and romantic
having a continual succession of logs
to cross sometimes three in a perch di
vers of which we had to jump our horse
is over and with difficulty got round
others: in places such a jumble of
stones or rocks that we were in continual