fifteen miles from the last mentioned creek; here and there the hills come close to the banks of the river on each side, but where there are bottoms, they are very large, and well watered; numbers of small rivulets running through them, falling into the Ohio on both sides. We encamped on the river bank, and found a great part of the trees in the bottom are covered with grape vines. This day we passed by eleven islands, one of which being about seven miles long. For the most part of the way we made this day, the banks of the river are high and steep. The course of the Ohio from Fort Pitt to the mouth of Beaver Creek inclines to the north-west; from thence to the two creeks partly due west.
17th.—At 6 o'clock in the morning we embarked: and
were delighted with the prospect of a fine open country
on each side of the river as we passed down. We came
to a place called the Two Creeks, about fifteen miles from
Yellow Creek, where we put to shore; here the Senecas
have a village on a high bank, on the north side of the
river; the chief of this village offered me his service to go
with me to the Illinois, which I could not refuse for fear
of giving him offence, although I had a sufficient number
of deputies with me already.[1] From thence we proceeded
down the river, passed many large, rich, and fine
bottoms; the highlands being at a considerable distance
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- ↑ The village here described was Mingo Town on Mingo bottom, situated
at the present Mingo Junction, Ohio. It is not to be confused with the Mingo-
bottom opposite the mouth of Yellow Creek. The former town was prominent
as a rendezvous for border war-parties in the Revolutionary period. From this
point, started the rabble that massacred the Moravian Indians in 1782. Colonel
Crawford set out from here, in May of the same year, on his ill-fated expedition
against the Sandusky Indians. See Withers's Chronicles, chap. 13.
Possibly the chief who joined Croghan at this point was Logan, since the former had known him in his earlier home on the Susquehanna, near Sunbury.—Ed.
