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again fecurely. When it began to grow dark the old man<br />
flood up again, Capt. Church asked him, if he would take<br />
a Gun and fight for him ? He bowed very low and pray'd<br />
him not to imp<strong>of</strong>e fuch a thing upon him, as to fight<br />
againft Capt. Annawon his old friend. But fayes he, I<br />
will go along with you, and be helpful to you, and will lay<br />
hands on any man that fhall <strong>of</strong>fer to hurt you. It being<br />
now pretty dark they moved cl<strong>of</strong>e together; anon they<br />
heard a noife, the Captain ftay'd the old man with his hand,<br />
and asked his own men what noife they thought it might<br />
be? they concluded it to be the pounding <strong>of</strong> a Mortar.<br />
<strong>The</strong> old man had given Capt. Church a defcription <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Place where Annowon now lay, and <strong>of</strong> the Difficulty <strong>of</strong><br />
getting at him: being fenfible that they were pretty near<br />
them, with two <strong>of</strong> his Indians he creeps to the edge <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Rocks, 350 from whence he could fee their Camps; he saw<br />
350 A continuous tradition has pre- change <strong>of</strong> years, has made the p<strong>of</strong>ition<br />
ferved the identity <strong>of</strong> this fpot. It is more acceffible than <strong>of</strong> old, although<br />
an out-cropping ledge <strong>of</strong> rocks in a wet ground ftill furrounds the rock,<br />
bit <strong>of</strong> upland in the northern part <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> traveller will find, perhaps So rods<br />
Squannakonk fwamp in Rehoboth. It beyond Mr. Blifs's houfe (which ftands<br />
may now be reached by the old turn- in the angle where another road crones<br />
pike from Taunton to Providence, and the pike), a tree on the left, larger than<br />
is between the houfes on that road now any near it, which bears the marks <strong>of</strong><br />
occupied by Seneca Blifs and Noah being <strong>of</strong>ten ufed as a hitching-p<strong>of</strong>t<br />
Fuller; on the left fide as you go to- with a path leading thence fouth-eafterly<br />
ward Providence, and about 6h miles into the woods. Following that path,<br />
from Taunton. This portion <strong>of</strong> the fay So paces, he will begin to afcend<br />
fwamp is owned by Nathan Pratt <strong>of</strong> the ledge which flopes up before him<br />
Taunton, who married a daughter <strong>of</strong> at an angle <strong>of</strong> perhaps 40 degrees, and<br />
Dea. Blifs, its former proprietor. <strong>The</strong> the length <strong>of</strong> which lies acr<strong>of</strong>s his way<br />
building <strong>of</strong> this road through the north- up, and apparently not far from north-<br />
ern end <strong>of</strong> the fwamp, with the natural eaft and fouth-weft. From pacing it,<br />
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