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the end of 13 miles having travail'd dilegently 5 1/2 hours
here we found another Strong Sulpher Spring, eat our
cold dinner, and again ascended what they call'd Hills
and decended, into the deep vallies, sometimes secluded from
any view of human abodes. We had a
narrow, and often dangerous road cut on the hill sides
when if any accident had happen'd to overturn us, we might
have fallen 2 or 3 hundred feet, unless the trees had interupted our
descent, and in many parts of it, no possibility of carriages passing
each other, however we met none. We at length reach'd
the River Juniata and crossed with both Carriages and 3 horses
in an excellent Boat, work'd by a Man, a Boy, and a young
Woman to Steer; we judg'd it to be 4 or 5 hundred yards in
width, we now made a turn in our course, and very soon
got upon the Turnpike leading from Erie, a Town on the Lake,
down to Harrisburg on Susquehanna. This afternoons ride, brought
us thro' several Villages on the River, and over several fine streams