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very fine bridge, just below their junction _ rode to the
feeding place 14 miles, eat our cold dinner, rested two hours in
the middle of the day, and set forward again, passd many miles
in sight and on the margin of the River. In several places
the rocks hung over our heads, fearful indeed to look at. In
many places they appear'd to be so broken and loose that
a slight jar above might tumble them upon us by the Ton.
We again cross'd the Juniatta on a Magnificent Bridge on the
Bedford Turnpike, and have now taken leave of it, no doubt
forever, to some of us; and have put up for the night in a
Spacious Tavern, 26 miles today. _ Within the last 5 or 6
miles, we have seen hundreds of Trees and Saplins, from 15 or 18
inches thro down to a very small size, which appear to have been
turn'd up by the roots with the weight of Snow which fell in the 3^d
M^o. A large number of them had fallen accross the Turnpike and had been
cut out enough to have taken several Men some days to accomplish.

20 of the M^o. Left our quarters after and early breakfast, and did little
else but accend, wind round, and descend mountains, made 14 miles on
the Bedford Turnpike, by half past 11, put in at a comfortable Tavern