52 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



dusky and Huron counties, and fincilly discharges its waters 

 into Lake Erie, at the mouth of Sandusky bay. It u about 

 eighty miles long including its windings from a straight line, 

 and its volume of water is about equal to that of the Little 

 Miami. Its Indian name, imports a water with whirlpools in 

 it. It abounds with lake tishes, and it has a safe and excellent 

 harbor, for lake vessels, at its mouth. We proceed to 



HURON 



River, whose mouth is a few miles east of the Sandusky 

 bay. Huron river rises in Richland county near the heads of 

 the Sandusky and Muskingum. Running slowly out of Rich- 

 lan<i into Huron county, which it crosses, it pays its tribute 

 to the lake, at the town of Huron. It is forty miles long and 

 turns many water wheels, in its course. 



Sailing eastwardly, sixty miles, along an iron bound, and 

 rocky shore, mostly; we arrive at the mouth of the Cuyaho- 

 ghan-uk, of the Indians. 



In our voyage, we have passed two small rivers, rising in 

 Medina county, and running quite across Lorain county, in- 

 to lake Erie. They are fine mill streams, for short ones — forty 

 miles long. These are Black river and Rocky river. But we 

 are now at the mouth of the 



CUYAHOGA, 



Or, as the Indians called it "Cuyahoghan-uk," Lake river. 

 It is emphatically lake river; it rises in lakes, and falls into a 

 lake. Rising in Geauga county, on the summit, it proceeds 

 along on that second level above the Erie in doubt, whether to 

 unite its waves with the Mississippi or St. Lawrence, until, it 

 wends its way cautiously along, across Portage county, to its 

 falls, which are about thirty miles, in a direct line, from the 

 lake, where having determined which way to go, it leaps exult- 

 ingly, from rock to rock one hundred and twenty five feet, in one 

 mile, pouring along its channel, even in a dry time, five thousand 

 cubic feet of water, in a minute, creating the very best water 



