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xnulberry trees fit for ship building, and walnut, 

 chesnut, and poplar trees suitable for domestic ser- 

 vices. Cayuga furnishes the best portage between 

 Ohio and Lake Erie ; at its mouth it is wide and 

 deep enough to receive large sloops from the lake. 

 It will hei^eafter be a place of great importance. 



Muskingum, in all its wide extended branches, is 

 surrounded by most excellent land, and abounds in 

 springs, and coni^eniences particularly adapted to 

 settlements remote from sea navigation ; such as 

 salt springs, coal, clay, and freestone. In 1748 a 

 coal mine opposite to Lamenshicola mouth took fire, 

 and continued burning above twelve months, but 

 great quantities of coal still remain in it. Near the 

 same place are excellent whetstones, and about eight 

 miles higher up the river, is plenty of white and blue 

 day for glass works and pottery. 



Hockhocking is navigable with large flat bottom 

 Jboats between seventy and eighty miles ; it has fine 

 meadows with high banks, which seldom overflow^ 

 and rich uplands on its borders. Coal and quarries 

 ^f freestone are found about fifteen miles up this 

 creek. 



Big Kanhaiva. 



Big Kanhawa falls into the Ohio upon its south- 

 eastern side, and is so considerable a branch of this 

 river, tl^t it may be mistaken for the Ohio itself by 

 persons ascending it. It is slow for ten miles to 

 Little Broken Hills ; the low land^ is very rich, and 

 ®f about the same breadth, from the Pipe hills to the 

 falls, as upon the Ohio. After going ten miles up 

 the Kanhawa the laad is hilly, and the water a little 



