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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 right side of the river. Just below this creek & above the last reef of rocks is another ford, the current rapid, the bottom even. In ascending the river on this side of the river path, travelling at the rate of 3 miles the hour, the following distances are noted: - Hour. 1. min. 30 cross a creek running to the right 3 feet wide