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nearly as wide; being embosomed among low green hills, they re- 
sembled heutifl pearls, surrounded by emeralds. Their shores, 
except at the outlets, are composed of a very white micaceous sand, 
which gives the water a pure pellucid cast. One of these, called 
* Brady’s Pond,” is seated about three miles from the cliffs, or the 
narrows of the Cuyahoga. It is named after Capt. Samuel Brady, 
who, as already stated, commanded for a number of years, during 
the Indian wars, a company of rangers, or spies, as they were called 
by the pioneers of the West. 
Legend of Samuel Brady.—Capt. Brady seems to have been as 
much the Daniel Boone of the north east part of the valley of the 
Ohio, as the other was of the south west, and the country is equally 
full of traditionary legends of his hardy adventures and hair-breadth 
escapes, although he has lacked a Furr to chronicle his fame, and 
to transmit it to posterity in the glowing and beautiful language of ~ 
that distinguished annalist of the West. From undoubted author- 
ity, it seems the following incident actually transpired in this vi- 
cinity. Brady’s residence was on Chartier’s Creek on the south 
side of the Ohio, as before noted in this diary; and being a man 
of herculean strength, activity, and courage, he was generally se- 
lected. as the leader of the hardy borderers in all their incursions 
into the Indian territory north of the river. On this occasion, 
which was about the year 1780, a large party of warriors from the 
falls of the Cuyahoga and the adjacent country, had made an in- 
road on the south side of the Ohio River, in the lower part of what 
is now Washington County, but which was then known as the set- 
tlement of “Catfish Camp,” after an old Indian of that name who 
lived there. when the whites first came into the country on the Mo- 
nongahela River. This party had murdered several families, and 
with the “ plunder” had recrossed the Ohio before effectual pursuit 
could be made. By Brady a party was directly summoned, of his 
chosen followers, who hastened on after them, but the Indians having 
one or two days the start, he could not overtake them in time to ar- 
rest their return to their villages. Near the spot where the town of 
Ravenna now stands, the Indians separated into two parties, one of 
which went to the north, and the other west, to the falls of the Cuya- 
hoga.. Brady’s men also divided; a part pursued the northern trail, 
anda part went with their commander to the Indian village, lying on 
the river in the present township of Northampton in Portage Coun- 
ty. Abniesa Brady made his approaches with the utmost caution, 
