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of the falls; and the fish are taken with the scoop nets. - The fish taken here are the hickory shad, rock, trout, perch, cat-fish, suckers. There is sturgeon in the river, but no white shad nor herring. During spring and summer, they catch the perch & rock. with hooks. As soon as the fish make their appearance, the chiefs send out the women and make them fish for the square - this expression includes all the chiefs & warriors of the town. The land on the right bank of the river at the falls is a poor pine barren to the water's edge; the pines small. The falls continue 3 or 4 miles nearly of the same width, about 120 yards; the river then expands to thrice that width - the bottom gravel - shoal & rocky. There are several small islands within this scope; one at the part where the expansion commences, rich, and some part of it under cultivation. It is half a mile in length, but narrow. Here the river is fordable - Enter the left bank 100 yards above the upper end of the island & cross over to it, and down to the fields thence cross the other channel. At the termination of the falls a creek 20 feet wide (o,cow,o,cuh hat,che falls creek) joins the