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surrounded with high clay banks, fertile lands, and 

 large salt springs. Its navigation is interrupted by- 

 shoals, but passable with small boats to the Gap, 

 where the War path goes through the Ouasiot© 

 mountains. 



The Scioto* 



Scioto is a large gentle river, bordered with rich 

 fiats or meadows. It overflows in the spring, and 

 then spreads about half a mile, though when confined 

 within its banks it is scarce a furlong wide. 



If it floods early, it seldom retires within its banks 

 in less than a month, and is not fordable frequently in 

 less than two months. 



The Scioto, besides having a great extent of most . 

 excellent land on both sides of the river, is furnished 

 with salt on an eastern branch, and red bole on Ne- 

 cunsia Skeintat. The stream of Scioto is gentle and 

 passable with large batteaux or barges for a consi- 

 derable way, and with smaller boats near two hun- 

 dred milesj to a portage of only four miles to San-, 

 dusky. 



Sandusky River, 



Sandusky is a considerable river, abounding in 

 level land, its stream gentle all the way to the mouth, 

 "where it is large enough to receive sloops. The 

 Northern Indians cross Lake Erie here from island 

 to island, land at Sandusky, and go by a direct path 

 to the lower Shawanoe town, and thence to the gap 

 of the Ouasioto mountain, in their way to the Cut- 

 taw a country. 



