10 Logan, the Mingo Chief. 



departed friends while on their journey to the land of spirits. Stone 

 pipes, more numerous than the vases, were also found ; some of 

 them display much ingenuity : one of them, which I saw, was carved 

 with a fine head of the bald eagle, done with great force and 

 truth: others were plain, made of light ash colored steatite, or 

 soap stone. A kw were of red clay, and some of hard sandstone. 

 Flint arrow heads were very numerous. A very few of the crania ex- 

 hibited marks of violence. They appear, in general, to have died a 

 natural death, and the bones to have been deposited here after being 

 carefully cleared of the flesh that once covered them. The sepul- 

 chre is too small and too confined to have received them with the 

 flesh on, or to have admitted the friends of the dead without danger 

 of suffocation. I succeeded, with some difficulty, in procuring two 

 crania, for the most of them had been carried off before 1 reached the 

 place. Oneis the head of a male, the other of a female. In the male, 

 the organs of self esteem and combativeness are largely developed. 

 It is perfect, and of as good a color as most skulls preserved in the 

 cabinets of the anatomists. The female head is well formed, and 

 possesses some good points in the estimation of the craniologist. 



The " Mingo Bottom," which commences a short distance below, 

 was the favorite residence of this once powerful tribe, when the 

 white man first made his appearance west of the Alleghany ranges. 

 The body of Logan, the celebrated chief, whose name has become 

 classical and is identified with history by the pen of Thomas Jefferson, 

 is said to have been buried on one of the adjacent hills, in sight of the 

 placid and beautiful Ohio, on whose waters he had so often struck 

 the voracious pike with his fishing spear, and hunted the buffalo and 

 the deer in the forests which shaded its shores. 



Henry Jolly. — While on the subject of the Mingoes, I can- 

 not refrain from reverting to that much controverted subject, the 

 murder of Logan's family. The following facts are very valuable 

 and interesting, as coming from the pen of one who saw the party 

 the evening after the murder ; was personally acquainted with 

 some of the individuals, and familiar with that spot and all the sur- 

 rounding region. The statement is from the manuscript notes of 

 Mr. Henry Jolly, now in my possession, and written at my request. 

 Mr. Jolly is seventy seven years of age, and lived during his youth 

 and early manhood on the Monongahela frontiers. At the period of 

 this event, his parents resided on the spot where the town of Wash- 

 ington, Pa., now stands, and which was then known to all the country 



