Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

A letter from a gentleman who left Philadelphia, in company with the Commissioners appointed to ascertain the western boundary line between Pennsylvania and Virginia, dated Wheeling-Creek, June 30, 1785, says, "In common with the deer, the elk, the bear, and the wolf, we inhabit as perfect a wilderness as ever the footsteps of a Jesuit or a Pilgrim traversed. Here I have profited numberless opportunities of making observations on the natural history of the country, and its productions, as well mineral as animal and vegetable.

Of the latter, I have met with a great variety, unknown in my opinion, to Linnaeus himself.

In about six weeks we expect to be upon the banks of the Ohio. A more agreeable country will, I flatter myself, intervene, before we arrive at the river; for the place we are now in is extremely mountainous, and in a very rude state.

We have just received information of the murder of two white men by the Indians, at the mouth of another creek; at present: but should our situation be found dangerous, proper measures will be taken for our protection."