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Set out this morning at sunrise, passed the mouth of the little Kanaway [1] one mile below our encampment of last evening on the Virginia shore it is about 60 yards wide at it's mouth there is a considerable settlement on this river it heads with the Monongahela, [2] passed the mouths of the little and big Hockhockin [3] and the settlement of Bellpray—a yanke settlement [4] passed several bad riffles over which we were obliged to lift the boat, saw and caught by means of my dog several squirrels, attempting to swim the river, one of these, the only instance I have observed, was swiming from the S. E. to the N. W. shore— one of the canoes fell a considerable distance behind, we were obliged to ly too for her coming up which detained us several hours; it rained very hard on us from 7 this morning untill about three when it broke away and evening as clear with a few flying clouds. took up on the Virginia shore having mad 18 miles this day.— [5]
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