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.

APPENDIX.] TOUR TO THE OHIO. 525
aforementioned, cannot contain less than fifty thousand acres in
view.
About six or seven miles below the mouth of the Little Kenhawa,
we came to a small creek on the west side, which the Indians called
Little Hockhocking; but before we. did this, we passed another small
creek on the same side near the mouth of that river, and a cluster of
islands afterwards. The lands for two or three miles below the
mouth of the Little Kenhawa on both sides of the-Ohio appear broken
and indifferent; but opposite to the Little Hockhocking there is a
bottom of good land, through which there runs a small watercourse.
I suppose there may be, of this bottom and flat land together, two or
three thousand acres. The lower end of this bottom is opposite to a
small island, of which I dare say little is to be seen when the river is
high. About eight miles below Little Hockhocking we encamped opposite to the mouth of the Great Hockhocking, which, though so
called, is not a large water; though the Indians say canoes can go
up it forty or fifty miles. Since we left the Little Kenhawa the
lands appear neither so level nor so good. The bends of the river
and bottoms are longer, but not so rich as in the upper part of the
river.
28th. — Left our encampment about seven o'clock. Two miles
below, a small run comes in, on the east side, through a piece of
land that has a very good appearance, the bottom beginning above
our encampment, and continuing in appearance wide for four miles
down, where we found Kiashuta and his hunting party encamped.
Here we were under a necessity of paying our compliments, as this
person was one of the Six Nation chiefs, and the head of those upon
this river. In the person of Kiashuta I found an old acquaintance,
he- being ~one of the Indians that went with me to the French in
1753. He expressed a satisfaction at seeing me, and treated us with
great kindness, giving us a quarter of very fine buffalo. He insisted
upon our spending that night with him, and, in order to retard us as
little as possible, moved his camp down the river just below the
mouth of a creek, the name of which I could not learn. At this
place we all encamped. After much counselling over night, they all
came to my fire the next morning with great formality; when Kiashuta, rehearsing what had passed between me and the Sachems at
Colonel Croghan's, thanked me for saying, that peace and friendship
with them were the wish of the people of Virginia, and for recommending it to the traders to deal with them upon a fair and equitable
footing; and then again expressed their desire of having a trade
opened with Virginia, and that the governor thereof might not only