St. Mary's and St. Joseph's rivers, and precisely
the place from which those waters take the name
of the Miami of the Lake,* *Now called the Maumee river. bearing that name
to Lake Erie. The fort commands a beautiful
view of these rivers, as also of an extent of
about four miles square of cleared land. Much
of this land has been cleared by the army of the
United States, and much of it was formerly done
by the Miami Indians

; they having had a large
town here. It is said that in the year 1785, the
Indian town then at this place contained upwards
of one thousand warriors. The garrison kept
here at present contains about forty officers and
soldiers It being a time of profound peace with
the Indians, government have withdrawn the
large force formerly kept at this station.

The spot where Fort Wayne

is situated is ren-
dered famous in Indian history. It was here
that the Indians gave the army of General Har-
mar a second defeat by which several hundred
of his men fell. Their bones lie scattered upon
the surface of the earth, and we are told that
the route by which the army made an escape
can be readily traced for the distance of five or
six miles by the bones of those slain by the In-
dians.

The grave of the Toad

, nephew to the Little
Turtle, a distinguished young chief, who with
the Little Turtle and other chiefs visited the