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Indians to the number of 140, were much distress'd for want of provisions, occasioned by their being frequently removed from place to place, since their first forcible removal from Muskingum - their approaching Crops, they say, are very promising, but their main dependance, in the meantime, is upon such vegetables as the Fields and Woods afford, , having but a very poor chance of hunting in their new settlement - Friends have it in contemplation to afford them a little assistance - the price of Indian Corn here, we are inform'd is 10/ per bushel. 25th. This morning went down to the wharf to see a Wolf that was kill'd last Night upon an Island about 3 miles from this place, it had by some means got there last Winter in the time of the Frost, and had done a great deal of damage, insomuch that the proprietor had offered a Reward of twenty Dollars for killing him. - he was much larger than a large Dog, of a grey or grisly colour. - his legs were as long as those of a large Deer, his Tail long and tapering, thinly covered with long hair, and his head in shape between that of a Dog and Fox.