It Is Beautified
With A Numerous Train Of Swans, And Other Sorts Of Water-Fowl,
Not Common, Though Extraordinary Pleasing To The Eye.
The forward Spring
welcom'd us with her innumerable Train of small Choristers,
which inhabit those fair Banks; the Hills redoubling, and adding Sweetness
to their melodious Tunes by their shrill Echoes.
One side of the River
is hemm'd in with mountainy Ground, the other side proving as rich a Soil
to the Eye of a knowing Person with us, as any this Western World can afford.
We took up our Quarters at the King's Cabin, who was a good Friend
to the English, and had lost one of his Eyes in their Vindication.
Being upon his march towards the Appallatche Mountains,
amongst a Nation of Indians in their Way, there happen'd a Difference,
while they were measuring of Gunpowder; and the Powder, by accident,
taking fire, blew out one of this King's Eyes, and did a great deal
more mischief, upon the spot: Yet this Sapona King stood firmly
to the English Man's Interest, with whom he was in Company,
still siding with him against the Indians. They were intended for
the South Sea, but were too much fatigued by the vast Ridge of Mountains,
tho' they hit the right Passage; it being no less than five days Journey
through a Ledge of Rocky Hills, and sandy Desarts. And which is yet worse,
there is no Water, nor scarce a Bird to be seen, during your Passage
over these barren Crags and Valleys.
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