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About a mile below the mouth of Beaver Creek we passed an old 

 settlement of the Delawares, where the French, in 1756, built a 

 town for that nation. On the north side of the river some of the 

 stone chimneys are yet remaining ; here the highlands come 

 close to the banks, and continue so for about five miles. After 

 which we passed several spacious bottoms on each side of the 

 river, and came to Little Beaver Creek, about fifteen miles be- 

 low Big Beaver Creek. A number of small rivulets fall into the 

 river on each side. From thence we sailed to Yellow creek, 

 being about fifteen miles from the last mentioned creek ; here 

 and there the hills come close to the banks of the river on 

 each side, but where there are bottoms, they are very large, and 

 well watered ; numbers of small rivulets running through them, 

 falling into the Ohio on both sides. We encamped on the river 

 bank, and find a great part of the trees in the bottoms are cov- 

 ered with grape vines. This day we passed by eleven islands, 

 one of which being about seven miles long. For the most part 

 of the way we made this day, the banks of the river are high and 

 steep. The course of the Ohio from Fort Pitt to the mouth of 

 Beaver Creek inclines to the north-west ; from thence to the two 

 creeks partly due west. 



17th. At 6 o'clock in the morning we embarked, and were de- 

 lighted with the prospect of a fine open country on each side of 

 the river as we passed down. We came to a place called the 

 Two Creeks, about fifteen miles from Yellow Creek, where we 

 put to shore ; here the Senecas have a village on a high bank, 

 on the north side of the river ; the chief of this village offered me 

 his service to go with me to the Illinois, which I could not refuse 

 for fear of giving him offence, although I had a sutlicient number 

 of deputies with me already. From thence we proceeded down 

 the river, passed many large, rich, and fine bottoms; the high- 

 lands being at a considerable distance from the river banks, till 

 we came to the BufTalo Creek, being about ten miles below the 

 Seneca village ; and from Buffalo Creek we proceeded down the 

 river to Fat Meat Creek, about thirty miles. The face of the 

 country appears much like what we met with before ; large, rich, 

 and well watered bottoms, then succeeded by the hills pinching 

 close on the river ; these bottoms, on the north side, appear rather 

 low, and consequently subject to inundations, in the spring of the 

 year, when there never fails to be high freshes in the Ohib, ow- 



