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it was more than 12 inches thro, and so shiver'd in the fall, that
when the carriage top struck it, it shook over our heads. G Wilson
and ourselves apprehended serious danger, we all alighted, and he
very gently back'd the Carriage, and turn'd about to a house we
had lately pass'd, the people assisted in cutting it out and we
got on in good time for the meeting, but the road was extremely
bad amoung the Grampion Hills, as they call them, tho the
settlement of friends is call'd, Clearfield. It lies in Clearfield
county, not far from the fine stream call'd Clearfield, which
empties into the west branch of the Susquehanna, running thro
the Hills, which they call the Grampion Hills _

9 of the M^o, 2^d day morning we left James
Moors, with grateful and thankful feelings, turn'd our faces
on Eastward course, well enough pleas'd to do so, came on
to J Packers, about 8 miles; where we fed, took dinner
and left the family with feelings much interested for their wellfare,
of which they were fully sensible, and were much tended
poor things, they with many others seem as if they were
hungering for over the crumbs, which fall in abundance