incidental, into their habits and history, is likely to become an enthusiasm. The geography of the State is likewise suggestive of the aboriginal dwellers. The streams, more than the political subdivisions, illustrate their vanished dialects, as has been beautifully expressed in some lines by WILLIAM J. SPERRY, formerly of the Cincinnati Globe, entitled "A Lament for the Ancient People," and which, although a digression and not historically exact, are here inserted, as well for their intrinsic merit as from a personal regard to the writer: "Sad are fair Muskingum's waters, Sadly, blue Mahoning raves; From where headlong Cuyahoga And the billows of blue Erie Unto where Potomac rushes, From the valley of Scioto, And the Huron sisters three, Over hill and plain and valley- On the water-in the forest, Ruled and reigned the Seneca. But sad are fair Muskingum's waters, By Kanawha dwells the stranger, And the Iroquois have wasted, Only by the Cattaraugus, Or by Lake Chautauque's side, There, in spots, like sad oases, There the Seneca, still wasting, Amid desolation reigns.” Even more total than the disappearance of the Senecas, is the migration of the remnants of the Ohio Tribes, who succeeded the New York confederates upon the Muskingum, the Scioto and the Sandusky, and of whom not even a "sad oasis" is visible, except upon the distant waters of the Kanzas or Nebraska. This volume leaves the indomitable Wyandot, the sagacious Delaware, the fierce Shawnee, and the cunning Ottawa as yet unconquered, although slowly and sternly retreating before the insolent column of white emigration. Another epoch witnessed the downfall of their savage pride, before the battalions of Wayne: while thenceforth, wholly unchecked by Indian resistance, swelled within our borders the rising tide of population, civil structure and material development. Upon these scenes the curtain is here unlifted. The task, delicate and responsible in manifold aspects, extends immediately over the threshold laid by these pages. He will be fortunate to whom its proper execution shall be allotted in the contingencies of the future. To the writings of the late JAMES H. PERKINS, and for valuable suggestions personally communicated to the author by Hon. EBENEZER LANE, Hon. ELIJAH HAYWARD, Col. JOHN JOHNSTON, THOMAS MEANS, Esq., and other citizens of the State, an expression of acknowledgment is due, and is gratefully tendered. J. W. T. EMBASSIES AND NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784, 425; Treaty of Fort McIntosh in IX. Lewis Wetzell, the Borderer, X. Surrender of the Moravian Tract to the United States, XI. Bockengahelas, the War-Chief of the Delawares, |