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which had fallen into the pond. This, although leaving only a small 
breathing place to support life, still completely sheltered him from 
their sight. The Indians, tracing him by the blood to the water, made 
diligent search all round the pond, but finding no signs of his exit, 
finally came to the conclusion that he had sunk and was drowned. 
As they were at one time standing on the very tree, beneath which 
he was concealed,—Brady, understanding their language, was very 
glad to hear the result of their deliberations, and after they had gone, 
weary, lame and hungry, he made good his retreat to his own home. 
His followers also all returned in safety. The chasm across which 
he leaped is in sight of the bridge where we crossed the Cuyahoga, 
and is known in all that region by the name of “ Brady’s Leap.” 
Falls of the Cuyahoga.*—We reached the Cuyaboga Falls Vil- 
lage, at 6, P. M., passing, in the last three miles, through several 
flourishing villages, seated along the borders of the stream. They 
are all engaged in manufactures, and several, which three years ago, 
consisted of only one or two dwelling houses, now number several 
hundred inhabitants. The Cuyahoga has a fall of more than two 
hundred feet in the distance of two and a half miles, across stratified 
rocks, which are worn away to nearly this depth in the course of 
the descent. The adjacent country, which is moderately hilly, de- 
scends with an easy slope on each side of the stream, for a consid- 
erable distance down to the cliffs which form the banks of the river, 
and which is not apparent until you approach near toit. The situ- 
ation is one of the finest I have seen for a manufacturing town, and 
is destined, at no distant — to become to > the West, what Lowell 
is to the East. 
Granite bowlders were common every few rods all this afternoon, 
and two miles north of the village we travelled over the conglome- 
rate rock, in place, noticed in the diary of the 11th. 
May 14th—The day was spent in examining the Cuyahoga 
Falls in company with Mr. Newberry, the very intelligent owner of 
a large tract of land, embracing the upper half of this valuable site, 
and who afforded me great assistance in taking a section of the order 
of stratification. I was much gratified in finding the same rock for- 
mations on the northern verge of the great coal basin of the Valley 
of the Ohio, that are found in its southeastern and southern termina- 
tion. Ne appearance of these rocks is discovered near the surface, 
* The aboriginal names of streams are almost universally ange and ap- 
propriate: the English of Cuyaho is ccabak or “the Geooked xi 
