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afterwards of their wounds. He also related the following anecdote: A considerable altercation arose amongst the Indians on the review ground, relative to a Commander-in-Chief. Some were in favor of Buckangehelas, a principal chief amongst the Delawares, whilst others were in favor of the Little Turtle. At length Buckangehelas himself decided the controversy by yielding to the Little Turtle, saying that he was the youngest and most active man, and that he preferred him to him-self. This reconciled the parties, and the Little Turtle took the command. We also rode to view a prairie which extends from the St. Mary's river to the Little river, a branch of the Wabash. The distance from one to the other is not more than four miles, and the highest ground is not more than five feet above the water in either river. The Indians say that in high freshets they have passed from one water to the other in their canoes. A canal might easily be cut here, and at a small expense, by which the waters of the lakes and the waters of the Ohio, (and of course the Mississippi) would be connected. An abundance of furs and skins taken on the waters of the Ohio and the Wabash, are brought up the latter river in boats by the Canadians and the Indians, and thence taken across a portage of eight miles to the Miami of the Lakes,* *The Maumee river. whence they are