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French word, signifies the Strait, a name much more appropos, it being but an outlet from the waters of the western lakes to Lake Erie. 25th. This morning our curiosity led us to take a view of Brownstown. The village contains about one hundred houses, which are generally built of small round logs, and roofed with elm bark. These Indians cultivate a considerable quantity of corn, and their fields are enclosed with rails of their own splitting. We saw a sample of the wheat which they had raised the last season, which looked well. They have gar-dens and a considerable number of fruit trees. They have a small number of cattle, and raise a large number of hogs. The interpreter says they are greatly disposed to civilization, and have re-quested of the United States to furnish them this year with cattle, instead of goods or money for their annuity. After taking breakfast, we again embarked and proceeded up the river Detroit, passing by another Indian town called Walk-in-the-Water village, a name derived from the principal chief of the settlement. The village contains about twenty houses, and bears the same civilized ap-pearance as Brownstown. After passing the river Le Cas and the river Range, we came opposite to a British town called Sandwich, where, upon an elevated position, we beheld the horrible spectacle of two men hanging in gibbets.