The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

522 WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS. [APPENDIX.
how badly furnished this country is with mill-seats. Two or three
miles below this is another run on the west side, up which is a near
way by land to the Mingo Town; and about four miles lower, comes
in another on the east, at which place is a path leading to the settlement at Red-stone. About a mile and a half below this comes in the
Pipe Creek, so called by the Indians from a stone, which is found
here, out of which they make pipes. Opposite to this, that is, on the
east side, is a bottom of exceedingly rich land; but as it seems, to lie
low, I am apprehensive that it is subject to be overflowed. This bottom ends where the effects of a hurricane appear, by the destruction
and havoc among the trees. Two or three miles below the Pipe
Creek is a pretty large creek on the west side, called by Nicholson,
Fox-Grape-Vine, by others Captema, Creek, on which, eight miles
up, is the town called the Grape-Vine Town; and at the mouth of it
is the place where it was said the trader was killed. To this place
we came abQut three o'clock in the afternoon, and finding nobody
there, we agreed to encamp, that Nicholson and one of the Indians might go up to the town, and inquire into the truth of the report concerning the murder.
25th.- About seven o'clock, Nicholson and the Indian returned;
they found nobody at the town but two old Indian women (the men
being a hunting); from these they learned that the trader was not
murdered, but drowned in attempting to cross the Ohio; and that
only one boy, belonging to the traders, was in these parts; the trader,
his father, being gone for horses to take home their skins. About
half an hour after seven we set out from our encampment; around
which and up the creek is a body of fine land. In our passage down
to this place we saw innumerable quantities of turkeys, and many
deer watering and'browsing on the shore-side, some of which we
killed. Neither yesterday nor the day before did we pass any rifts,
or very rapid water, the river gliding gently along; nor did we perceive any alteration in the general face of the country, except that
the bottoms seemed to be getting a little longer and wider, as the
bends of the river grew larger.
About five miles from the Vine Creek comes in a very large creek
to the eastward, called by the Indians Cut Creek, from "'a town -or
tribe of Indians, which they say was cut off entirely in a very bloody
battle between them and the Six Nations. This creek empties just
at the lower end of an island, and is seventy or eighty yards wide;
and I fancy it is the creek commonly called Wheeling by the people
of Red-stone. It extends, according to the Indians' account, a great
way, and interlocks with the branches of Split-Island Creek; abound