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River, beginning at the Pennsylvania Line, the lines of the reservation is not yet Run, but we found the Indians have a choice that it should ly on the River, half a mile wide on each side. about 9 miles from hence up the River lat- -terly stood a Town called Genesinguh- -ta, the Inhabitants of which Village a few years since mostly removed here, about 10 miles further up the River we understood a settlement had latterly been made, from the best information we could get, thought somewhere a- -bout the Old Town would be the most suitable place to fix on, it being about half way between the upper settlement and lower Town, according with consider- -able exertion about 9 OClock we got Cornplan- -ter, his son Henry, and three other Indians to embark with us five in a Canoe, they put us up the River with setting Poles at the Rate of 3 miles an hour. in places the River was Shallow and ran rapid, in other places from two to six feet deep, we pased by a num- -ber of Islands, some pretty large, which appeared rich, were grown over with grass and other herbage very luxuriant, the