AJ-127: Carver, Travels through North America (1766)

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The country adjoining, to the river, for about sixty
miles, is very level, and on its, banks lie fine meadows,
where larger droves of buffaloes and elks were feeding, than
I bad observed in any, other part of my travels. The track
between the two branches of this river is termed the Road of
War between the Chipeway and Naudowessie Indians.
The
country to the Falls marked in the plan at the extent of the
traders travels, is almost without any timber, and Above
that very uneven and rugged, and closely wooded with pines,
beech, maple, and birch. Here a most remarkable and
astonishing sight presented itself to my view. In a wood, on
the eaft of the, river, which was about three quarters of a
-,mile in length, and 'in depth far. ther than rhy eye could
reach, 1 observed that, every tree, many of which were more
than six feet in circumference, as lying flat on the ground
torn up by the roots. This appeared to have been done by
fore extraordinary hurricane that came from the weft Tome
years ago but how many I could not learn, as found no
inhabitants near it, of whom I could