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ine guides served Lederer well, for as soon as he reached the fall line, he was traversing essentially virgin territory, empty even of Indian camps and teeming, according to his journal, with rattlesnakes, wildcats, deer, elk, bears, beavers, foxes, wolves and mountain lions.
Lederer’s journal, written entirely in Latin, describes one exciting encounter after another. Perhaps the details of his trip were a great deal more exciting to the civilized German than they would have been to a native explorer accustomed to the wilderness.
The man and his guides moved slowly, taking a week to cross the piedmont and reach the summit of the Blue Ridge. Lederer claimed that he crossed the “south branch” of the Rappahannock, but study of a map reveals that this river was probably the Rapidan.
A crude map drawn by the explorer indicates that he re-crossed the Rapidan and went west towards the south branch of the Rivanna.
No one knows which river Lederer actually followed to the peak. If he had followed the Rivanna towards its headwaters, he would have reached the ridge at Swift Run Gan.
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