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. 523
ing in very fine bottoms, and exceeding good land. Just below this, on
the west side, comes in a small run; and about five miles below it, on
the west side also, another creek empties, called by the Indians
Broken-Timber Creek; so named from the timber that is destroyed
on it by a hurricane; on the head of this was a town of the Delawares, which is now deserted. Two miles lower down, on the same
side, is another creek smaller than the last, and bearing, according
to the Indians, the same name. Opposite to these two creeks, on
the east side, appears to be a large bottom of good land. About twj
miles below the last mentioned creek, on the east side, and at the
end of the bottom aforementioned, comes in a small creek. Seven
miles from this is Muddy Creek, on the east side of the river, a pretty
large creek which heads with some of the waters of Monongahela, according to the Indians' account, and is bordered by some bottoms of
very good land; but in general the hills are steep, and the country
broken. At the mouth of this creek is the largest flat I have seen
upon the river; the bottom extending two or three miles up the river
above it, and a mile below; though it does n'ot seem to be of the
richest kind. About half way in the Long Reach we encamped, opposite to the beginning of a large bottom on the east side of the river.
At this place we threw out some lines at night and found a catfish,
of the size of our largest river catfish, hooked to one of them in the
morning, though it was of the smallest kind here. We found no rifts
in this day's passage, but pretty swift water in some places, and still
in others. We found the bottoms increased in size, both as to length
and breadth, and the river more choked up with fallen trees, and the
bottom of the river next the shores rather more muddy, but in general stony, as it has been all the way down.
26th. -Left our encampment at half an hour after six o'clock, and
passed a small run on the west side about four miles lower. At the
lower end of the Long Reach, and for some distance up it, on the
east side, is a large bottom, but low, and covered with beech near
the river-shore, which is no indication of good land. The Long
Reach, is a straight course of the river for about eighteen or twenty
miles, which appears the more extraordinary as the Ohio in general
is remarkably crooked. There are several islands in this reach;,some
containing an hundred or more acres of land; but all I apprehend
liable to be overflowed.
At the end of this reach we found Martin and Lindsay, two traders, and from them learnt, that the person'drowned was one Philips,
attempting, in company with Rogers, another Indian trader, to swim
the river with their horses at an improper place; Rogers himself nar