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banks of the Chagrine, which is naviga- 
ble about two hundred yards below, for 
vessels of one hundred tons. Abbott was 
at that time building a sloop of eighty 
tons ; he has also a svist-mill, which he 
offered for 1000 dollars, and his land of 
which fifty acres were cleared, at 10 dal- 
lars per acre round. His orchard was 
not so good as many others, and his 
smoak-house was made out of a sycamore 
or button-nut-tree, hollowed by fire. On 
the borders of the Lake, we met with in- 
numerable flocks. of wild pigeons, flying 
with vast rapidity, and so low that, when 
on horseback, [ have frequently stooped 
my head to avoid being struck in their 
rapid course; aud have repeatedly seen 
them killed by persons on foot throwing 
sticks into the flocks. This method sel- 
dom failed of bringing down two or three 
at a time. In general, birds are much 
more numerous than to the East of the 
Alleghany; 1 could not however hear of 
the mocking-bird, nor was the feathered 
tribe so musical asin England; but the 
plumage of many was-highly beautiful, 
particularly the flame-coloured hanging- 
bird, whose nest, suspended by a thread, 
bids defiance to the destructive efforts of 
the numerous varieties of squirrels. Imay 
also remark, that among the finest pro- 
ductions I saw no locusts, although in the 
pamphlet published a tew days. back by 
my ingenious friend, .Dr. Tongue, de- 
scriptive of the Southern Shores. of Lake 
Erie, its situation, climate, soil, produc- 
tions, trade, commerce, manufactures 
and exports, he mentions the honey- 
locust asa native. Deer, bears, wild tur- 
keys, and other game abound, as well as 
millions of squirrels, and some few 
wolves. ‘These animals, however, fly the 
habitations of man; and as a country be- 
comes settled,so it becomes free from them. 
From Chagrine, to the future city of 
Cleveland, situate at the mouth of the 
Cayahoga, it is'twenty miles. ‘The road 
is good and never more than about four 
miles from the Lake. With the excep- 
tion of some rich bottoms, the first four 
miles the land was below the general 
estimate; the next elyht miles was through 
a most beautiful country, adorned with 
several handsome elevations, well adapted 
for the future residence of wealth and 
taste, commanding tine views of the Lake 
aud of the land: The country for the 
rest of the journey was undulating and 
pleasant, and the soil rich,. The site on 
which the City of Washington has been 
built, has been admired by all who have 
seen it; yet its beauty is, I think, ex- 
ceeded by that of Cleveland. As this 
City was fixed upon as the place of ne- 
vocation with the different tribes of 
Indians, it became our head-quarters for 
aboyt a month, and afforded observations 
which will be here atter detailed. Almost 
immediately on our arriyal, we were 
honoured with a visit from two Squaws 
and a boy, children of a Seneka Chief, 
called Steenowitch, or Standing Stone, 
who were dressed for the occasion. ‘The 
eldest girl was about twenty years of age: 
her hair, shining with bears grease, hung 
on each side the eye-brows, and was tied 
with a large bow belund; she was en- 
circled by a handsome piece of blue 
cloth, confined about the breast with a 
silver clasp ; her legs. were covered with 
green flannel, and she had on her feet 
Indian moccasins; silver ornaments were 
suspended from her ears, and her neck- 
lace resembled a bracelet of silver. The 
younger woman, about eizhteen, was 
dressed after the same fashion, but her 
legs were covered with fine scarlet cloth. 
The boy was about eight years old, much 
like his sisters in his person. Suspended 
from his neck were three silver gorgets, on 
one of which were the arms of Kngland, 
and had probably belonged to an othcer ; 
his green coat was decorated with brass 
buttons, having on them the arms of the 
Juited Stat and was edged with a) 
United States, and was edged with a) 
coarse silver lace; he wore black cloth 
on Ins legs, and carried in his hand his 
bow and arrow, of which we afterwards 
had proof of his being a master; his fore- 
head and cheeks were covered with ver- 
milion, whilst his fine black eyes and 
Open countenance proclaimed a boy of 
no common stamp. rom the apex to 
the forehead, his hair as well as that of 
his sisters was separated, and the line 
covered with vermilion; and under their 
woollen they all wore linen, made to fit 
the boxly tigh: ay. The following morning 
we visited their father, who had pitched 
his tent ina meadow on the border of 
the great bend ofthe Cayahoga. Besides 
the persons who had visited us, this Chief 
had a wife and one other son living, 
Stauding Stone was upwards of six feet 
high, and a remarkably large and portly 
man; his chest was the fullest and most 
masculine I ever saw; the firmness of his 
footstep, and the streneth of his make, 
occasioned his appellation, His lady, in | 
all the dignity of dirt and filth, attended 
on his wants and pleasures; it was her 
duty to cut the wood for his fire, to plant 
and to reap his corn, whilst he ‘indulyed 
in the ardours of the chase, or the lux- 
uries of his pipe. Beside his hatchet, 
sugar-boiler, guns, bows and arrows, ie 
mahawk, 
