o'clock. Here they waited two days for Le Baril, the chief, and his band of Miamis, to join them and proceed to La Demoiselle to hear Céloron's speech. "Finally, on the morning of the 31st, they appeared, followed by their women, their children, and their dogs. All embarked, and about 4 o'clock in the afternoon we entered Rivière à la Roche, after having buried the 6th and last leaden plate on the western bank of that river,[1] and to the north of the Ohio."[2] "I . . have buried on the point formed by the right shore of the Ohio, and the left of the River la Roche, a plate of lead, and attached to a tree the arms of the king."[3]
With the burial of this sixth and last leaden plate, which, so far as known, has never been discovered, Céloron's voyage
- ↑ Rivière à la Roche (Rocky River) was the present Great Miami. It was called the "Rocky River" because of its numerous rapids.
- ↑ Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 183.
- ↑ Céloron's Journal in Darlington's Fort Pitt, p. 52.
waters. From distances mentioned this was probably the Little Miami. Dunn (History of Indiana, p. 65, note 1) thinks it was the present White Oak Creek.
