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St. Mary's and St. Joseph's rivers, and precisely the place from which those waters take the name of the Miami of the Lake,* *Now called the Maumee river. bearing that name to Lake Erie. The fort commands a beautiful view of these rivers, as also of an extent of about four miles square of cleared land. Much of this land has been cleared by the army of the United States, and much of it was formerly done by the Miami Indians; they having had a large town here. It is said that in the year 1785, the Indian town then at this place contained upwards of one thousand warriors. The garrison kept here at present contains about forty officers and soldiers It being a time of profound peace with the Indians, government have withdrawn the large force formerly kept at this station. The spot where Fort Wayne is situated is ren-dered famous in Indian history. It was here that the Indians gave the army of General Har-mar a second defeat by which several hundred of his men fell. Their bones lie scattered upon the surface of the earth, and we are told that the route by which the army made an escape can be readily traced for the distance of five or six miles by the bones of those slain by the In-dians. The grave of the Toad, nephew to the Little Turtle, a distinguished young chief, who with the Little Turtle and other chiefs visited the