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Show TR \T.LS IN THE UNITED ST TES: Dut to return. \Vc foun lour canoes and b.1p-n;arrc j11fl: as we had left them, and h<n ing embaii·cd once more, we made th befl of our way down to the hou fc "h rc we had befJ oke br akf.1fl, which :fl:ood on th, banh of the river. The pcop e here were c: •• trcm ·ly civil; they afii!l:ed ns in making frcl1.1 paddles in lieu ofthofc which we had lofl: the ni rht before: ; and for the t1 ii e which we gave them ahov what they afkcd u for our brcakf~1fis they were very th nkful, a moil: unufual lrcum-flance i ·1 the nited 't.ucs. After brcal fall: vve purfucd our way for about fi•, en miles down the ~·iver, but in the conrfc of thi clifiancc we were obliged to g t into the water more th an a dozen different times, I beli ve, to drag lhc canoes over the !bo:lis; in {hort, by the time we arrived at a houfc in the af ernoon, we were fo completely difgull:ed with our water conveyance, t 1at l1 ad we not been abl to procure two men, ns we did in the ncigl bourhootl, to conduct our canoes to the mouth of Tyoga River, where there was r afon to imagine that the water would be found deeper, we fhouh.l c rtainly have left them behind us. The men fet out at an early honr in the morning, and we proceeded fome time afterwards on foot along the bank , but fo ditli.cult was the navigation , that we reached Tyoga. Point or Lochartzburg, a. fma.ll town built at the mouth of the rivcr11 fevcral hours before them. On arriving at this phlcc, we hc8.rd to our difappointment, that the Sufqudnnnah, al tl ough generally at this fenfon of the year navigable for boats drawing four fc<.:t w:tter, was now nearly as low a the TyoD'a River, [o that in many pl ac es, particularly at the rapids, there was fc.ucely fufficient water to fi uat a canoe over the D1arp rocks with which the bed of the river abounds ; in fine, we wer informed that the channel was now .inti icatc and bngerous, and that no perfon unacquainted with the river could attempt to proceed down it withont great rifk; we found no dif1iculty, howcv r, in birino- from amongfl: the watcrmcn accufl: omed to ply on the riv c.r, a man that was rerfc :lly well aCC)Uaintcd V.'ith it; and having exchanged our two canoe~, purfuant to his ad vi c, for one of a very large fizl.', capabl of holdino- us all conveniently, W"' renewed our yoyagc. From EASTERN BRANCH OF Tlii·. SUSQUEHA ~N Aii. 441- From Locbartzburgh to \Vilkcfb:1rrc or Wyomi11g fit t d 1 • ' , ' 1 ua e on t 1e {outh-eafl fick o.f th.e Snftplehanna 1 ' the difl:1nce is about nm· cty 1111·1 e :t and when the nv<.:r 1s full, and the curr~.: nt of cc)lu·r.. 111- · fi ll , . • . : . . l l. C)ll g, as IS u ua y the C.1[;.; 111 the f.tll and fJHII ry of the )'C':ll" y t . . j J . . . o • • o 1 m.1y go town t 1c whole of t1 JS d fh.n ce Jil .o ne day '· but ow inn::, to tl e, 1o wne {'· o f t 1w water we were no lds han fonr d y& pt;rlor,n ing the voy~1rr , thotPh we made the utmofl cxpc li tion puilibk. In m:-tny p;u ts of t' 1e river, j~~dccd, we found the :urrcnt very rapid ; at the Falls of vV) .dufing, f~.. r infla nce, v.:c were cnncJ dcnvn three or four n iks in •a bout a q u ,"d· tc.t. o f an 11 our; b ut ·1 11 ~-thc,r Fl~ccs, where the rive~ was deep, fcarcely any current was perceptib le m 1t, a1:d vvc were obl1gcd to work our way with p.lddl ·s. The. bed of the nver abounds wi th rocJ· 'a nd gr·'t vel, 'a 11d tl 1e wa t er I·S 1r.o tranf},arent, th, tin many p.uts, where it mull: have been at Icafl: twenty feet deep, the fmall efl: pebble was difl:inguil11able at the bottom. The width of the. river va:·ies from fifty to three hundred yards, and {carcely any ~ream_ l11 _Am e~·Jca lns a mor .irregu · r conrfe ; in fome places it runs 111 a dtretbon diametrically oppofik to what it does in others. The country. through which this (the afiern) branch of the Sufquehannahp_ affcs,_ ~~ extremely uneven and rugged; indeed, from Loehartzburgh till w1thm a fhort diftance of \Vi k ~ ibarre, it i bounded the entire way by fl:ccp mountains eith r on the one fide r the other. The mountains are never to Lc met with at both fide of the fune part of the river, except it be at phc s where the riv r takes a very fudden bend; but wherever you perceive a range of mountains on one fid ', you arc furc to find an e,·tcnfiv..: plain on the oppofite one; [carccly in any part do the mountains extend for more than one mile together on the fJmc fide of the riv r, and in many in fb nces, clnring the courfe of one mill:, you. will perceive more than a dozen different changes of the mount.1ins from one fide to the othe r. It may readily be ima ,jned, fi-om tl is d...:fcription of the caftern brnnch of the !Sutquch.tnnah, that the fcenery along it mufl: be very fine; and, inc..lccd, I think thcr<.; i, no river in America that abounds with fuch a variety anc..l number of piCl:urculue 'icws. At every bend the proij)eet varies, and there i fcarctly a fpot bet\ 'cen Lochartzburg and vVilkefbanc where the painter would not find a. fuhjeCl: , |