The northern traveller, and northern tour, with the routes to the Springs, Niagara, & Quebec, and the coal mines of Pennsylvania, also, tour of New England . es. The mouth of East Canada Creek, on the oppo-site side of the Mohawk. Near that place met a violent death, soon after leavingFort Plain, on his Vvay back to Oneida Lake andthe Oswesfo. He had crossed the river some-where below, and while lingering a little in therear of his troops, was ovv^rtaken near the mouthof the creek, by two Oneida Indians, in friendshipwith the Americans. Seeing them preparing tokill him, he begged f
The northern traveller, and northern tour, with the routes to the Springs, Niagara, & Quebec, and the coal mines of Pennsylvania, also, tour of New England . es. The mouth of East Canada Creek, on the oppo-site side of the Mohawk. Near that place met a violent death, soon after leavingFort Plain, on his Vvay back to Oneida Lake andthe Oswesfo. He had crossed the river some-where below, and while lingering a little in therear of his troops, was ovv^rtaken near the mouthof the creek, by two Oneida Indians, in friendshipwith the Americans. Seeing them preparing tokill him, he begged for his life; but they only re-plied, ^^ Sherry ValleyP^ and tomahawked him onthe spot. Mohawk Castle, 2 miles. This was the princi-pal defensive position of that famous nation of In-dians now entirely scattered and lost. As thenearest to the Dutch settlements, and New Eng-land, they were long regarded with peculiar soli-citude, and frequently with great dread. Theywere one of the five nations, of which we shallspeak more particularly, at Oneida, and were longfaithful and serviceable friends to the white is an old chapel erected for their tlTTLE FALLS. 51 LITTLE FALLS. The country presents avaried surface, and increases in interest on ap-proaching Little Falls, which is the most roman-tic scene on the course of the Erie canal. Onreaching a little open meadow surrounded by hillswhere the views open upon cultivated fields anda {ew farm houses, the Mohawk will be foundflowing below on the right; while on the oppo-site side, at the foot of the hills on the verge ofthe forest that covers them, the great road is seen,after having been lost to the view for a long is situated Gen. Herkimers house, on thesouth side of the river at the foot of Fall road, the river, and the canal meet again atthe head of the valley; for there is but one pas-sage, and that so narrow as hardly to afford roomfor them all, through a chain of limestone andgranite hills, doubtle
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