were on fire, perhaps they had not been
burnt for several years, and the great
quantity of dead timber, both standing
and laying down, having taken fire
as it pass’d along, made a very live-
ly appearance in the night, look-
ing as if the whole mountain was
on fire. We have been under some
exercise for a few days past concern-
ing our goods, which are coming up the
river, having very little cause to expect
their arrival before the last of this
month, and the dry weather been such
for a considerable time pass’d, the
river has fallen very fast, which the
Indians remarked to us, with some
degree of seriousness, telling us that it
would be, with some degree of difficulty
the boat would be brought up some
shallow places; But in the midst