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About forty miles from Saint Vincennes, in 

 a southwesterly direction, is the Great Sabine, so 

 called, where salt, in large quantities, is made. 

 It is situated in hilly land, on a stream of water 

 which flows into the Ohio. The land is still 

 owned by the government of the United States, 

 but rented to those who carry on the salt works, 

 and who are said to obligate themselves to make, 

 at least, a certain quantity annually, and are not 

 permitted to sell it for more than at a stipulated 

 price. The waters in this Saline are said to have 

 double the strength of those at the great salt 

 springs on the Scioto river. 



The land on the Indiana side, bordering on the 

 Ohio river, from the Great Miami nearly to the 

 Mississippi, a distance of about six hundred miles, 

 is generally hilly and broken, but some excellent 

 bottoms, of different extent, are interspersed. 

 From a small distance above fort Massai and 

 down to the mouth of the Ohio, the land grad- 

 ually becomes level, forming a rich and delightful 

 prairie. In this distance, there are many small 

 streams, but no considerable river, excepting the 

 Wabash, which falls into the Ohio. 



But on the opposite side, within a less distance 

 three large, navigable rivers, besides numerous 

 smaller streams, contribute their waters to the 

 Ohio. The first is Kentucky river, which comes 

 in about seventy miles following the bends of the 

 river below the Great Miami, is ninety yards 

 %vide at its mouth, and the same width, when the 



