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UNiTEB STATiES. 



Little Mincami, 

 Little Mineami river is too small to navigate with 

 batteaux. It has much fine land, and several salt 

 springs ; its high banks and gentle current prevent 

 its much overfiowing the surrounding lands in 

 freshes* 



Great Mineami.. 



Great Mineami, Assereniet or Rocky river^ has a 

 very stony channel ; a swift stream, but no falls. It 

 has several large branches, passable with boats a 

 great way ; one extending westward towards the 

 Wabash river, another towards a branch of Mine- 

 ami river, which runs into Lake Erie, to which there 

 is a portage, and a third has a portage to the west 

 branch of Sandusky, besides Mad creek, where the 

 French formerly established themselves. Rising 

 ground, here and there a little stony, which begins in 

 the northern part of the peninsula, between the 

 lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan, and extend across 

 Little Mineami river below the forks, and south- 

 wardly along the Rocky river to Ohio, 



Buffaloe River, 



Buflfaloe riv^er falls into the Ohio on the eastern 

 side of it, at the distance of 925 computed miles from 

 Fort Pitt. It is a very considerable branch of the 

 Ohio; is two hundred yards wide, navigable upwards 

 of one hundred and fifty miles for batteaux or barges, 

 of thirty feet long, five broad, and three deep, carry- 

 ing about seven tons, and can be navigated much far- 



