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Ohio. On approaching it, I felt no small degree of awe. The slow and majestic movement of so vast a body of running water, added to the re-collection of the blood which had been spilt re-lative to its shores, enforced the sensation. With what obstinacy the poor Indians resisted the de-signs of the white men in making settlements west of this river! Having been driven further and further westward, relinquished claim to tract after tract, they here made a stand, fixed in a re-solve, hitherto ye may come, but no farther! This river shall be the boundary between us! It shall limit your encroachment! The resist-ance they made, and the blood which was split, sufficiently prove the reluctance with which they gave up the contest. The bottom upon the west side of the river where we crossed, which was at the junction of Short Creek, is very rich, but not wide. In this bottom we observed a mound of earth cast up to the height of fifteen feet, its diameter at the base forty-five feet, and said to be a burial place, but whether made by the In-dians or not is not ascertained. It is said that two miles below this is a square fortification containing several acres of ground, enclosed by a bank of earth thrown up by art to the height of eight feet. Along the east shore of the river great de-struction was made a few years ago by a species of caterpillar which infested the trees. They fed upon the leaves, and thus killed trees of