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that they resew fly. the Intim., kill yam aombera at
them with stick.. Fish ore also plenty ; ato Indian will eats h
g wall canoe foil in two or three hour. with • hook. &cr-
imes of immense stir are taken to the bay, toil neer and ttk
art aboodatit to lie (germs Drumm! it.
43J —A detaehmeat of the party procerdrd %spate Titaba-
waria. There ate a great number of springs (gibe pttrret
Inver Manlove from the batiks of ahe Sagan* ; bat the water
of the river appears middy, sad ltai ► bitter and divagrett!
ble taAte.

2401.—0ne deiseisiiieli-iitt- the party proceeded by lead,
the other latirotanc t hp.Tgaverse en the Cars tiler, Mama
liner mites NM kiwil4. Thence tee of the party info-
ceeded up the .is Ames Grimm mles, and returned. net e
are twohlsergentvglimpplsere in this distance, oceminned by
flood-wonJ. Ihe river ilberwise *meld be navigable for
hosts. TM lied to essentially situated on the basks of the
river, well wattled, roil the soil
ilbili.r—Tbe part y mimed M. a sOntherly fikrection from Ike
iiiisrue et isermaa (or Cans rive.), and Initilled about eiglit
Miles, wises it airsick the Eliot, seri ereserped near Nit
IVampler's surveying party. Tee land between the Cass and
Flint is a rich bottom, Seely timbered with ash,msple, WO,
beach. buir.hlase, and isbisejsuise. Thus land, however, is
overflowed fur about half a mile from the banks of the river
during high waters in tile spriog ; the rest of the year if is
perfectly dry. The land bears this character for roves er
right miles above the months of the river; theme it hi
higher, and never overflowed, and msy be more •ppeoprials:
ly termed upland, though interspersed with egieusive harts
of rich alln•ion.

The description Mr. Wample► gives of the Mtge body of
land he bad surveyed ou the Fliat is highly Bstteriog. He
Salo that be ar a tract so 'meows° that was better
adapted to receive a depute population it has the advan-
tages of a rich soil, well timbered, and beauttfolly watered,
with &Miami for the erection of hydraulic machruery abou.
dant.

26 b.—Proceeded up the Flint, on the west side. The
Nadia good fur, a few miles then comnsesees • piece*,
whics continues on one side of the liver, as far as Nyome's
villages six or seven miles. This pinery, however, extends
bat • short distance back from the ►iver, and the land in the
rear of it is of a good csaliak, sad timbered with the various
forest trees heretofoie noticed.
Encamped on s hill opposite to Nyome's village. Here
is a large bottom, sarrounfied by • high, tboogh sot broken
country.
27111.—Dr. Thompson this day returned by the Grand
Trivets► and the meths &min trail, to the county of Oak-
land. The quality of Me land through which the trail runs,
from the Grand Traverse to the settlements in Oakland, is
nut biotin to the writer of this. lufwmation on this subject
may, how. err, be expected soon.
The party moved in a westerly direction. The hod, for
about three miles, is cokered with • growth of small pines,
and the soil is sandy sod poor. After ibis, the land is ex-
cellent, well watered and well timbered. Crossed two CORSI.
derable creeks, which fell into the river &imam, and •
great number of small but clear and rapid brooks. Tle
timber is maple, ash, hickory, elm, sycamore, butternut, &e.
Haviug travelled !seemly males from our last eacamoneut,
wk struck the titer Seiswasia at the Indian settlement of
She-Manitou (City of the Great Spirit). Thi■ village e»•-
sists of about twenty houses, well built in the India. man-
ner, and finely situated. A part of the houses are erected
on two emitience*, and the rum in • beautiful vale between
them. The lodises have improved • portion of the land
mar the river, o• which they raise corn, beam, potatoes, dm.
- They Lave also a considerable •ember of apple.siees and do-
;nestle animals, and appear to eajuy the comfort, of life in a
murk greater degree than is moral among savages.
The Sei•wssra river never rises shove its bank., which
are of various heights, from s to forty fret. l• some
places the land, from a considerable distance back, deseeuds
regularly and beautifully to the water. to other places ale
extensive plains of the riche.' •Iluvion, sorrouuded by up-
land covered with • fine growth of limb. r.

The ficiaarams river, at the Maiiitou village, which is
probably toasty-live miles from its month, to a ►ery beauti-
ful stream, about forty feet wide, sod soused a half deep
The correct( is rapid, sod the water the must transp
imagiosble.
teth.—Proceeded up the Sciawama on the eastern aide.
The soil is of she richest description, and llua rcnisrk will
apply so all the land use SCINVISIOSO, with the raccoon, of a
loses of Imo *real extent near the huh. The limber is prin.
eipally maple, with a mixture of ash. o.k, olituut, butter-
nut. elm, bola-blsoc, &c. There are also a few pitieritii,
bet of Small extent.
Encamped ow the west side of she river, about twenty
miles above lika-Manitou.

2Wh.—This day, in travelliwg its a motherly direction, we
passed through a very be sistifsil 'styli of couatry, timbals-it
principally will maple, is whirls there are a great untobre
of India, sugar camps. Navin: proceeded almost ten' miles se
arrived at to lodine wilier, or the casters side of the river,
situated on a fertile plasu of considerable extent. Here •Nu
the lodises have improvements, which are ruelosed mid cul-
tivated iu a regular msoner. Pruceediag up on the western
aide of the river, we found the laud differeat from any we ►ast
►itherto sees un the Selenium". Is is au oak plain, and
generally of the hest kind. %'e passed also a prairy of seve-
ral miles extent. which is skirted with woodland, and might
be improved into valuable ruins at • very trifling expense.
1 he country throughout appears to be well watered by the
numerous Wtls brooks which intro sect it sad fall into the
Stinginess. Having travelled about righters miles, we as.
Mired and encamped at the Indian village of WanJign■ (Selt
Village), situated on • high bank of the Berawsssa. On the
mope...4e side is • large tract a buttons land, which the lake-
bitants of the village cultivate. These is a saliiie near this
place—but, as the Indians were absent, we could uut ascer-
lair its position The Indians manufacture she ►alt nevi...
mry N. the village from it, but whether these is a sufficient
quantity of water to renner it impurtaut to the cuuntsy, is
still uncertain.

30111.—Oar coarse this day was nearly youth, on the
western side of the river. lie laud is chi. a tiaihsre4 wilts
oak, and of a good (lushly, until within a mile ur Iwo of
the weetern hianch of the Sciawswa, where ii a ridgy, ha. d,
and stogy. There are also as veral small lakes w this
wity, from which small stiesnus issue, ■ad turd one branch
of the river.

Encamped shoot two miles mutt' east or the Indian s• t.
fitment of Assmibagawick. Tilt land brie is goorl, and the
!whites raise eunsuderable I ro ps of cures, &c. Crum et.

There is a rpring nese the place of ow encampment, t
water of which is so struogly impregnated with ipso, end
perhaps, oilier minerals, that it &fatted nearly ill de coo.-
peesy who drank of it
3lst.—Beiog now in the western ?ark of the ficiawime, it
was the intention of a division of the piny to protect w a
westerly direction to some pouts on Grand Rive,. Put lb:.
desist' as. •bandosed, on eccouni of our stews being inertly
exhasoned, and de party dete, mined to return.
The surveyo.. mark, range 4, township 4 noit'a, about
five miles E S.E. from our encsinpmeut.
November lat.—Proceeded E.S.E. about 12 miles. The
land is principally oak plaior, the soil generally of the be-t
quality, sod oilseed by a miniher of •msll etream•. En-
camped use the blot of a floe small lake, about three titles
long from east to arcs, and I...lisps a (tole wide.
2,l—Proceeded is the same directives, thieve's a couple,
of a different character from any we lead yet seen. There is a
tract, probably Wives miles squire, so billy that Ike is id is
of little value. Small lakes are isonstrous is this district,
and several of the streams which fall two the whets ids
the element site of the prettiest', have their waters heft.
One branch of the river Huron of Del toil! movies f,oon s chain
of lakes in this quarter, sad at its swede is abuses sixty leet
wide sad two deep. be rusreut fie rapid, and the battoas
covered write shell*.

341.—Tbe laud throughout thin day's joutory appeared :w