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Gravier's Voyage Down the Mississippi
In: Jesuit Relations, 1700, Vol. 65, p. 107.
p. 107.
(Wabash river [Ohio-Hanna, 122].) It is said to have three branches; one coming from the northeast, which flows at the rear of the country of the Oumiamis [Miami], called the river St. Joseph, which the savages properly call Oubachi [Wabash]; the second comes from the Iroquois country, and is what they call the Ohio; the third from the South-Southwest (sic) [Cumberland- Hanna, 122] on which are the Chaouanona [Shawnee]. As all three unite to fall into the Mississippi, the stream is commonly called Ouabachi, but the Illinois and other savages call it the River of the Akansea. [Hanna 1, 122, notes this third river as the Cumberland.]
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