Every thing which is put into the ground grows as rank as i)ossible ; but the people are yet very poor -- liaving been on but 2 years. Deer, salmon and trout very plenty. Tliis is 8 miles in a direct line from the lake. Salmon run up every freshet, and ye people can easily take them with spears. But 3 families in this town the winter before the last. I find by intelligent i>eople in whom I may confide, and wiio have seen tliem, that there are 2 other forts in this quarter. One lies on the forks of the north branch of Sandy creek, 3| miles S. East from the fort whicli I examined in this towm -- about 90 rods in diameter; and that there is another 3 miles to the N. W. of the one I examined. Tills is an octagon, containing about 2 acres, witli 2 entrenchments, extending in different directions from the fort 20 rods The wdiole of these works are made in the solid rock -- are aboul

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4 feet deep and 4 feet wide. Tliis is a most stupendous work and could not have been eifected without iron tools.

In this country may be found growing wild, and in great plenty, hops, grapes, cranberries, plums, strawberries, gooseberries, blackberries, raspberries, currants, plantain, dock, yarrow, spikenard, sarsaparilla, mullen, burdock, dock, English pursley, French sorrel, peppermint, common mint, catnip, thorn apples, of whicli pies are made, Indian corn, potatoes, oats and flax -- peas, beans, and all kinds of productions grow very rank. Wheat this year was hurt with the rust, but grew amazing rank.