{Friday.}
The Next Day, We Travell'd Over Very Good Land, But Full Of Free-Stone,
And Marble, Which Pinch'd Our Feet Severely.
We took up our Quarters
in a sort of Savanna-Ground, that had very few Trees in it.
The Land was good, and had several Quarries of Stone, but not loose,
as the others us'd to be.
{Saturday.}
Next Morning, we got our Breakfasts of Parch'd Corn, having nothing but that
to subsist on for above 100 Miles. All the Pine-Trees were vanish'd,
for we had seen none for two days. We pass'd through a delicate rich Soil
this day; no great Hills, but pretty Risings, and Levels, which made
a beautiful Country. We likewise pass'd over three Rivers this day;
the first about the bigness of Rocky River, the other not much differing
in Size. Then we made not the least Question, but we had pass'd over
the North-West Branch of Cape-Fair, travelling that day above 30 Miles.
We were much taken with the Fertility and Pleasantness of the Neck of Land
between these two Branches, and no less pleas'd, that we had pass'd the River,
which us'd to frighten Passengers from fording it. At last,
determining to rest on the other side of a Hill, which we saw before us;
when we were on the Top thereof, there appear'd to us such another delicious,
rapid Stream, as that of Sapona, having large Stones,
about the bigness of an ordinary House, lying up and down the River.
As the Wind blew very cold at N.W. and we were very weary, and hungry,
the Swiftness of the Current gave us some cause to fear; but, at last,
we concluded to venture over that Night.
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