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in triumph, and in salety, his levee 3 is complete ;—his person 
is highly re respected, and-his name enrolled among their he- 
roes, 1s Faded down to pace in their war songs, as an 
object of emulatio 
ome of the nettlemesi suffered | severely from the want of 
ndian War. Their sup- 
plies had pernplore hess principally brought from Pittsburgh’; 
and the war broke out before they had land enough under 
psn Ea Rs supply Sawislves, after which time it was very 
hazardous to navigate the river ; the boats being often destroy- 
ed by the Indians, and all on "board killed: a they were 
in pei danger, w when attempting to open new fields. 
ese difficulties had-well nigh produced a famine ; but, 
by the interposition ofa kind Providence, they were enabled 
to overcome all their difficulties ; and escaped without any 
very great losses, from their numerous enemies. 
_ “The Indians that formerly inhabited your county—their 
number, condition, customs, manners, language, myiolont: 
urylng piaces, monuments, forts, tumuli or mounds, wea- 
pons, utensils, and other traces of their settlement ; their his- 
tory, migrations, traditions, character, trade, wars, and eas- 
ties ; their names and places, and their signification ?” 
“So far as I have been able to learn, the Indians bre no 
Paatehte: within the present boundaries of Washing- 
ington county. But the tract of country embraced within it 
was used as the common hunting ground of several different 
tribes, more particularly the Shawnees, the Delawares,and the 
Wyandotts. That tract of country embraced by the Ohio 
Company’s purchase, is reputed to have been the best hunt- 
ing ground, north-west of the Ohio river; and is remember- 
ed with regret to this day, by many of the old Indians. I 
have been Jold by some of the first settlers of this place, that 
the hills were literally covered with buffalo, deer, and wild 
turkeys ; that the hunters made a business of killing the deer, 
for their skins and tallow only, and that one expert hunter 
could kiJl several hundreds in the course of a few weeks. At 
this time they have become scarce; the best hunters cannot 
kill, in a favourable time, more than three or four in a day, 
and. perhaps not one in a day. The buffalo have been 
driven from the country many years since, and the race of 
tkeys.| is almost extinc 
know of no regular burying places that they had, in this 
neighbourhood ; but they seem to have been buried as the 
