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from Chilicothe to the shores of Lake Erie, and must have been brought 

 from the region north of Lake Huron or Superior." 



In the course of his observations, the writer enters into 

 some details respecting the horrible atrocities interchanged 

 between the native Indians and the white borderers during 

 the latter part of the last century. These do not specially 

 come within the province of the naturalist ; but, as they ap- 

 pear in the American Journal of Science^ the admission there 

 must justify a quotation from them for our own pages. Lest, 

 however, our scientific readers should be disposed to quarrel 

 with us, we will only notice the exploits of one " Indian- 

 hater," or " free man of the woods," as the narrator terms 

 them : — 



" I left Beavertown in the mail coach at eleven a.m. for Poland, in 

 Trumbull County, Ohio, distant thirty-eight miles. Directly on leaving 

 Bridgewater, and crossing a small stream, on a neat bridge, we began to 

 ascend a long steep hill, called * Brady's Hill.' It received its name from 

 an interesting border adventure, which occurred in ■ early times,' near its 

 base. Captain Samuel Brady was one of that band of brave men who 

 lived, in the trying days of the American Revolution, on the western 

 borders, exposed to all the horrors and dangers of Indian warfare, and 

 whose names should be perpetuated in history. He held a commission 

 under the United States, and, for a part of that time, commanded a com- 

 pany of rangers, who traversed the forests for the protection of the 

 frontiers. He was born in Shippensburgh (Pa.), in the year 1758, and 

 removed, probably when a boy, into the valley of the Monongahela. At 

 the period of this adventure he lived on Chartier Creek, about twelve 

 miles below Fort Pitt ; a stream better known, however, to the pilots and 

 keel -boatmen of modern days by the significant name of ' Shirtee.' He 

 died in 1796, soon after the close of the Indian war. Samuel Brady, the 

 hero of the following adventure, was over 6 ft. in height, with light blue 

 eyes, fair skin, and dark hair : he was remarkably straight; an athletic, 

 bold, and vigorous backwoodsman, inured to all the toils and hardships of 

 a frontier life, and had become very obnoxious to the Indians, from his 

 numerous successful attacks on their war parties, and from shooting them 

 in his hunting excursions, whenever they crossed his path, or came within 

 reach of his rifle ; for he was personally engaged in more hazardous con- 

 tests with the savages than any other man west of the mountains, except- 

 ing Daniel Boone. He was, in fact, " an Indian hater," as many of the 

 early borderers were. This class of men appear to have been more 

 numerous in this region, than in any other portion of the frontiers ; and 

 this, doubtless, arose from the slaughter at Braddock's defeat, and the 

 numerous murders and attacks on defenceless families that for many years 

 followed that disaster. Brady was also a very successful trapper and 

 hunter, and took more beavers than any of the Indians themselves. In 

 one of his adventurous trapping excursions to the waters of the Beaver 

 River, or Mahoning, which in early days so abounded with the animals of 



they embrace all the characteristics of this formation ; and if they do not 

 rest on chalk, and cannot be called supercretaceous, they rest on lime 

 rocks, which belong to the secondary deposits, and, in a geological view, 

 these unconsolidated beds are strictly tertiary." 



