My next step was to descend this stream; and, while in search of an ark on the borders of the Monongahela, I fell in with a Mr.Brigham, a worthy person from Massachusetts, who had sallied out with the same view.

We took passage together on one of these floating houses, with the arrangements of which I had now become familiar.

I was charmed with the Ohio; with its scenery, which was every moment shifting to the eye; and with the incidents of such a novel voyage.

Off Wheeling we made fast to another ark, from the Monongahela, in charge of Capt.

Hutchinson, an intelligent man.