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which had fallen into the pond. This, although leaving only a small 

 breathing place to support life, still completely sheltered him from 

 their sight. The Indians, tracing him by the blood to the water, made 

 diligent search all round the pond, but finding no signs of his exit, 

 finally came to the conclusion that he had sunk and was drowned. 

 As they were at one time standing on the very tree, beneath which 

 he was concealed, — Brady, understanding their language, was very 

 glad to hear the result of their deliberations, and after they had gone, 

 weary, lame and hungry, he made good his retreat to his own home. 

 His followers also all returned in safety. The chasm across which 

 he leaped is in sight of the bridge where we crossed the Cuyahoga, 

 and is known in all that region by the name of ^' Brady^s Leap.'' 



Falls of the Cuyahoga.* — We reached the Cuyahoga Falls Vil- 

 lage, at 6, P. M., passing, in the last three miles, through several 

 flourishing villages, seated along the borders of the stream. They 

 are all engaged in manufactures, and several, which three years ago, 

 consisted of only one or two dwelling houses, now number several 

 hundred inhabitants. The Cuyahoga has a fall of more than two 

 hundred feet in the distance of two and a half miles, across stratified 

 rocks, which are worn away to nearly this depth in the course of 

 the descent. The adjacent country, which is moderately hilly, de- 

 scends with an easy slope on each side of the stream, for a consid- 

 erable distance down to the cliffs which form the banks of the river, 

 and which is not apparent until you approach near to it. The situ- 

 ation is one of the finest I have seen for a manufacturing town, and 

 is destined, at no distant day, to become to the West, what Lowell 

 is to the East. 



Granite bowlders were common every few rods all this afternoon, 

 and two miles north of the village we travelled over the conglome- 

 rate rock, in place, noticed in the diary of the 11th. 



May I4th. — The day was spent in examining the Cuyahoga 

 Falls in company with Mr. Newberry, the very intelligent owner of 

 a large tract of land, embracing the upper half of this valuable site, 

 and who afforded me great assistance in taking a section of the order 

 of stratification. I was much gratified in finding the same rock for- 

 mations on the northern verge of the great coal basin of the Valley 

 of the Ohio, that are found in its southeastern and southern termina- 

 tion. No appearance of these rocks is discovered near the surface, 



* The aboriginal names of streams are almost universally significant and ap- 

 propriate : the English of Cuyaho is crooked, or " the crooked river." 



