Shaw & Griffith were preparing Ground for
Planting Corn the weather had been so wet
for sometime back that the Ground could not
be plowed to advantage. the land Cleared
at these Villages is about 100 Acres they have
about 120 Horse kind & about 50 Horned
Cattle & a good many Hogs the want of
mas last Winter proved fatal to abundance
of Swine I do not find that Friends have
any Hogs at the Station the land here
as well for 200 Miles down this River is
Excellent & would admit of settlements suf-
-ficient for all the Indians on this side the
Missisippi & is Navigable up the little River for Boats about
20 Miles above this which is connected by
a portage of about 8 miles with the St. Mary
a branch of the Miami of the Lake
the main Stream navigable many miles Higher
We viewed the Mill Seat at Dennis
Station on the River which we pronounced
a good one also Dennis's Creek a Large
Branch but pronounced in favour of
the River Mill the Branch failing
in the Summer