THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY ARCHIVES: THE MIAMI COLLECTION
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Number of Indian Towns
on and Near the Ohio

Smith, William or Hutchins, Thomas, in
Appendix IV of: Bouquet, Historical
Account of Bouquet's Expedition
Against the Ohio Indians, in
1764, (Robert Clarke & Co.:
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1868),
pp. 149-152.

pp. 1 (Title), 149 , 150 , 151 , 152 .

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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF

Bouquet's Expedition

AGAINST THE OHIO INDIANS,

IN 1764.

WITH PREFACE BY FRANCIS PARKMAN,
Author of "Conspiracy of Pontiac," etc.

AND

A TRANSLATION OF DUMAS'
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GENERAL BOUQUET.

CINCINNATI, O.
ROBERT CLARKE & CO.
1868.

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(page 149)

APPENDIX IV.

NUMBER OF INDIAN TOWNS, situated on and near the Ohio River, and its branches, with their distances from Fort-Pitt, and the distances of the principal branches from each other at their conflux with the Ohio.

			Distance from one another.	Distance from Fort-Pitt.
FIRST ROUT about N. N. W.			Miles	Miles
From FORT PITT	to	Kushkuskies Town on Big Beaver-Creek		45
	up	the east branch of Beaver-Creek to Shaningo	15	60
	up	ditto to Pematuning	12	72
	to	Mohoning on the West branch of Beaver Creek	32	104
	up	the branch to Salt Lick	10	114
	to	Cayahoga River	32	146
	to	Ottawas town on Cayahoga	10	156

(page 150)

			Distance from one another.	Distance from Fort-Pitt.
SECOND ROUT about W. N. W.			Miles	Miles
From FORT PITT	to	the mouth of Big Beaver-Creek		25
	to	Tuscarawas	91	116
	to	Mohickon John's Town	50	166
	to	Junundat or Wyandot town	46	212
	to	Sandusky	4	216
	to	Junqueindundeh	24	240

			Distance from one another.	Distance from Fort-Pitt.
THIRD ROUT about W. S. W.			Miles	Miles
From FORT PITT	to	the Forks of the Muskingham		128
	to	Bullet's Town on Muskingham	6	134
	to	Waukatamike	10	144
	to	King Beaver's Town on the heads of the Hockhocking	27	171
	to	the lower Shawanese Town on Sioto River	40	211
	to	the Salt lick town on the heads of Sioto	25	236
	to	the Miamis Fort	190	429

(page 151)

			Distance from one another.	Distance from Fort-Pitt.
FOURTH ROUT down the Ohio; general course about S. W.			Miles	Miles
By water	from	FORT PITT to the mouth of Big Beaver Creek		27
	to	the mouth of Little Beaver Creek	12	39
	to	the mouth of Yellow Creek	10	49
	to	the two Creeks	18	67
	to	Weeling	6	73
	to	Pipe Hill	12	85
	to	the long Reach	30	115

to	the foot of the Reach	18	133
to	the mouth of Muskingham River	30	163
to	the little Canhawa river	12	175

to	the mouth of Hockhocking river	13	188
to	the mouth of Letort's creek	40	228
to	Kiskeminetas	33	261
to	the mouth of big Canhawa or new river	8	269
to	the mouth of big Sandy creek	40	309
to	the mouth of Sioto river	40	349

	to	the mouth of big Salt Lick river	30	379
	to	the Island	20	399
(page 152)
	to	the mouth of little Mineamie† or Miamee river	55	454
	to	big Miammee or Rocky river	30	484
	to	the Big Bones‡	20	504

to	Kentucky River	55	559
to	the Falls of the Ohio	50	609
to	the Wabash, or Ouabache	131	740
to	Cherokee River	60	800
to	the Missisippi	40	840

N. B. THE places mentioned in the three first Routs are delineated in the foregoing map, by an officer who has an actual knowledge of most of them, and has long served against the Indians. The Fourth Rout down the Ohio was given by an Indians trader, who has often passed from Fort-Pitt to the Falls; and the distances he gives of the mouths of the several rivers that fall into the Ohio may be pretty certainly depended on. Our maps hitherto published are very erroneous in placing some of those rivers.
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† These rivers, called Little and Great Mineamie or Miamee, fall into the Ohio between Sioto and the Ouabache, and are different from the Miamis river, which runs into the west end of lake Erie, below the Miamis fort.

‡ So called from Elephant's bones said to be found there.

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