TRAVELS IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES



turned from Logans the 8th the ioth rode to Harrodsburg
the night of the 7th it thundered and raind, the creeks were
high the 8th the 12th it snowed, we had advice from Lick-
ing that a man was wounded near Ridles the 8th and that
some people were kild at Boonsburg the same day Col.
Calaway and Pemberton Rawlings on the 9th and two
Negroes taken.
  March I3. Finished examining the books and rectified
several mistakes we found two claims entirely omitted in
the list, made out for the survey and three in the list sent
to the Register with some mistakes in the names and some
in the quantities of Land. Joseph Lindsays Claim is like-
wise not taken notice of because not located.
  The old English Version of the Psalms as in the liturgy
is translated from the Septuagint the new version from the
Hebrew original.
  Kettlewels practical believer 1 with Allen on fa[i]th pre-
fixed to it, is reccommended as the properest books for in-
structing a Family in the fundamentals of the Christian
religion in as short evident and valid a manner as the sub-
ject will permit.
  March I4. Monday night there was a smart white frost
succeeded by a warm clear day, the sugar trees run plenti-
fully but the Juice was of an Acid cast apt to ferment and
with difficulty turn to sugar, from the Molasses state, the
grains smaller clamy and a little Acid cast which showed the

English bean the inner substance is sweet and lodged hard small
kernels the fruit is eaten by the common people and by all the
Moors in the feast Ashorah but is especially preserved for their
horses to whom it is food and Physic, as it both drenches and
fattens them.
  After drying some of the wood of this tree it appeared verry
coarse grained wood, and porous, and not good for any fine work
being as coarse as common Oak and of a disagreeable smell when
green. - Note in MS.
  1 John Kettlewell, The Practical Believer; or the Articles of the
Apostles' Creed drawn out to form a true Christian's Heart and
Practice. For a list of books in Col. Fleming's library see William
and Mary College Quarterly, January, i898.
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