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Indian houses which we passed to-day are built of small round logs, and are roofed with bark. Near the mouth of Swan creek is an extensive valley of which we took a particular view. Here the Indians placed their wives and children at the time they agreed to make battle with Gene-ral Wayne. The river increases in width from the foot of the Rapids toward the lake. It is more than half a mile wide opposite Swan creek, and at present has the appearance of tide water; a strong east wind having brought a heavy swell from the lake, which has in a short time raised the river more than three feet in perpendicular height. We saw to-day geese and swans in great abundance. 20th. This morning notwithstanding the very unfavorable appearance of the weather, it being rainy and wind high, we again proceeded. At the end of three miles we reached the mouth of the river, where we entered a beautiful circu-lar bay, about six miles in diameter, called Miami bay.* Now called Maumee Bay. The wind continuing high, we proceeded along the margin of the bay, for about ten miles to a point called Bay Point. This is the ex-treme point of land, between Miami Bay and Lake Erie. We attempted to turn the point in order to enter the lake, but the situation being bleak and the wind high, occasioned a heavy