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Pittsbourgh also some light Waggons
with famalies furniture & going to
Kentucky _ Came to the foot of North
or blue mountain, 3 miles of easey
ascent, on the summit is a spring of
good water from whence is an extensive
prospect to the Eastward of Farms &
woodland; breakfasted at Skinners
who made the new road & the best Inn
on the Road, a pistol shot ^ ^No. from
Skinners, is the remains of Fort
Littleton 87 feet square with 4 bastions [right margin] 14

NB there is a road through the
Valley, many settlement, & a town at
the head of Connagwins spring which
falls into the [deletion] Susquhannah
3 miles westward is Connague Spring
that falls into the Potomack. A light
blue flame is seen in the night, that
when followed vanishes & ^ ^{from whence} it is thought
there are copper silver & lead mines

___ To Fort Littleton & Birds tavern,
2 miles low land, good soil & timber, then
ascended middle mountain 2 [1/2?] miles
long, of easy ascent, on the top of which
is a spring of good water from the which there
is a view of fine extensive bottom to the
Et. with many farms, with surrounding
hills enriched with the best buildg. timber.
the descent to the Westward, stoney & steep
the west base appearing to be lower than
the Eastern, at the foot of the mountain
crossed the head of Cannochieque spring
a Creek on which are mills, then entered
a valley 1 1/2 miles good land & road (the
last hill termenates Franklin County) [right margin] 199