danger of getting our horses legs fast, or
broken in the cavities between the stones
presently we would have to descend lascks
almost perpendicular into swamps and
then out again as difficult; and these
guts were very frequent. The roots of
the pine and hemlock trees were very
troublesome, the ground in many places
being laced over with them in a rough con-
dition. The under brush and limbs of
the trees were another very great difficulty
as were some very steep hills in the lat-
ter past of this stage. It is called 240
miles which we thought were very long
ones, for it took us 12 hours industrious trav-
elling, including about an hour we
turned our horses out to pick a little a
grass tho’ next to none was to be seen in
this day’s ride, nor one house for 20 miles.
The land was heavy timbered, but not