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Some friendly Indian advised him to leave the Indian settlements, 

 which he did." " Could any rational person believe for a moment, 

 that the Indians came to Yellow Creek with hostile intentions, or 

 that they had any suspicion of siaiilar intentions on the part of the 

 whites, against them ? Would five men have crossed the river, 

 three of them become in a short time dead drunk, while the other 

 two discharged their guns, and thus put themselves entirely at the 

 mercy of the whites ; or would they have brought over a squaw 

 with an infant pappoos, if they had not reposed the utmost confi- 

 dence in the friendship of the v^^hites ? Every person who is at all 

 acquainted with Indians knows better; and it was the belief of the 

 inhabitants who were capable of reasoning on the subject, that all 

 the depredations committed on the frontiers, by Logan and his party, 

 in 1774, were as a retaliation for the murder of Logan's friends at 

 Yellow Creek. It was well known that Michael Cresap had no 

 hand in the massacre at Yellow CreeJc.^'* 



Spring Garden. — During the day, I visited " the Spring Gar- 

 den," owned by Mr. Slack, a very ingenious and enterprizing man. 

 It is beautifully situated on the southern slope of a hill, looking 

 down upon the Ohio. A large spring of very pure water bursts 

 from the side of the hill, a part of which is diverted to the use of a 

 bath house, and the remainder to the irrigation of the garden in the 

 drier portions of the year. A green house is attached, containing 

 many rare and rich exotics, now in fruit and flower. The situation 

 is one of the best I have ever seen, and cannot fail to yield both 

 profit and delight to the owner, and to afford a source of tasteful and 

 refined recreation to the inhabitants of Steubenville. Indeed, hor- 

 ticulture, delighting us by its flowers, and rewarding us by its 

 fruits, tends, manifestly, to cherish a refined taste in individuals, 

 and to produce an elevated state of society ; while agriculture 

 confers upon mankind the most substantial rewards : the best days 

 of Rome were those of her Cincinnati, when the tillage of the earth 

 was considered equally useful and honorable. The Georgics of 



* A brother of Capt. Daniel Greathouse, said to have been present at the massa- 

 cre, was killed by the Indians the 24th March, 1791,. between the mouth of the 

 Scioto and Limestone, while emigrating to Kentucky in a flat boat, with his fami- 

 ly. He seems to have made little or no resistance to the Indians, who attacked 

 him in canoes. They probably knew who he was, and remembered the slaughter 

 of Logan's family, as he was taken on shore, tied to a tree, and whipped to death 

 with rods. 



