The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones . occursas to whether or not the pictures were cut by the Eries or their con-temporaries, or by the early Delawares and Shawnees who came westto the Ohio about 1724 and thereafter. De Lery mentions the Little Chaouanon Village, four leagues dis-tant [east] from the Riviere Chininque [Big Beaver]. This was Logs-town, which Scarrooyady had burned on leaving there to join Washingtonin the Spring of 1754,
The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones . occursas to whether or not the pictures were cut by the Eries or their con-temporaries, or by the early Delawares and Shawnees who came westto the Ohio about 1724 and thereafter. De Lery mentions the Little Chaouanon Village, four leagues dis-tant [east] from the Riviere Chininque [Big Beaver]. This was Logs-town, which Scarrooyady had burned on leaving there to join Washingtonin the Spring of 1754, and which the French rebuilt for the Shawneesafter Washingtons defeat at Great Meadows. Not the least interesting portion of these extracts from De LerysJournals is the information that the writer of those Journals kept arecord of the expedition of Longuetril down the Ohio River in is to be hoped that this earlier Journal of De Lery may yet be foundand published. A portion of it is still in existence, preserved in the 1 N. Y. Col. Doc, vii., 16; ix., 96, 792. Kenta-ke, the place of the fields, orprairie, is the original of our word Nar. and Crit. Hist, of Am., iv.,
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