I went Last Tuesday not knowing your Lordship had that very Day
set out for Neavils to see whether you had any further Commands or
directions to give concerning the Surveying of Cacapehon and as
your Lordship was not at Home I was inform by Col^o G. Fairfax that
you had not any Directions in Particular more than were given to
the other Surveyors as your Lordship had mentioned I therefore have
made bold to Proceed on General Directions from him as Missing
this Opportunity of Good Weather may be of considerable Hindrance I
shall Wait on your Lordship at Frederick Court in November to obey
your further Pleasure and am my Lord &[72]
[Footnote 72: Here terminates the entries in the little note
book, containing "My Journey Over the Mountains." It is proper to
state that the journal was kept in a small, vellum-bound, blank
book, 6 by 3¾ inches in size, closely written on both sides of
the leaf. Either from a desire to classify his memoranda, or for
want of a second book, or from some motive of economy, he turned
the book around and began from the other end to keep a record more
particularly relating to his surveys and miscellaneous affairs. His
field notes of surveys were kept in a book of the same size as the
one described, from which the most of the following surveys are
taken. The other surveys are found on loose sheets which have been
bound and denominated miscellaneous papers; a few of them having
dates, enables the editor to place them in chronological order.]
Then Survey'd for M^r John Monroe y^e following Tract of land
bounded as follows