with Thunder and Lightning.

{Thursday.}
Next Morning, it proving delicate Weather, three of us separated ourselves
from the Horses, and the rest of the Company, and went directly
for Sapona Town. That day, we pass'd through a delicious Country,
(none that I ever saw exceeds it.) We saw fine bladed Grass, six Foot high,
along the Banks of these pleasant Rivulets: We pass'd by
the Sepulchres of several slain Indians. Coming, that day, about 30 Miles,
we reach'd the fertile and pleasant Banks of Sapona River,
whereon stands the Indian Town and Fort. Nor could all Europe
afford a pleasanter Stream, were it inhabited by Christians,
and cultivated by ingenious Hands. These Indians live
in a clear Field, about a Mile square, which they would have sold me,
because I talked sometimes of coming into those Parts to live.
This most pleasant River may be something broader than the Thames
at Kingston, keeping a continual pleasant warbling Noise,
with its reverberating on the bright Marble Rocks. It is beautified
with a numerous Train of Swans, and other sorts of Water-Fowl,
not common, though extraordinary pleasing to the Eye. The forward Spring
welcom'd us with her innumerable Train of small Choristers,
which inhabit those fair Banks; the Hills redoubling, and adding Sweetness
to their melodious Tunes by their shrill Echoes. One side of the River
is hemm'd in with mountainy Ground, the other side proving as rich a Soil
to the Eye of a knowing Person with us, as any this Western World can afford.
We took up our Quarters at the King's Cabin, who was a good Friend
to the English, and had lost one of his Eyes in their Vindication.
Being upon his march towards the Appallatche Mountains,
amongst a Nation of Indians in their Way, there happen'd a Difference,
while they were measuring of Gunpowder; and the Powder, by accident,