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Roads from Detroit
to the Illinois

(1774)

(Due to length divided here into two parts)

In: Mich. Pioneer and
Hist. Colls., vol. 10,
pp. 247-248.

pp. 1(Title), 247.

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PIONEER COLLECTIONS

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COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCHES

MADE BY THE

PIONEER SOCIETY

OF THE

STATE OF MICHIGAN

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SECOND EDITION

VOL. X.

LANSING
WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS
1908

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(page 247)

ROADS FROM DETROIT TO THE ILLINOIS BY WAY OF THE FORTS MIAMIE, OUIATTANON
AND ST. VINCENT WITH SOME REMARKS*

		Miles.	Miles.
From Detroit to Lake Erie		18
To the River Miamie		36
To the Foot of the Rapids		18
To the Top of the Rapids		18
	N. B. Part of the Ottawa & a few of the Hurons inhabit this part of the River. In the former when the water is low, Canoes cannot pass the Rapids, otherwise than by being dragged over the stones & frequently the Traders are obliged to carry their goods the whole eighteen miles.
To the end of the Still Water [near Florida, Henry Co.]		24
To the top of the next Rapids [4 miles below Defiance]		9
To the grand Glaze, a river so called on the left going up [at Defiance]		6
	.N. B. A few Ottawas live here.
To the little Glaze, in the right [Tiffin River]		3
To the King's Glaze on the right [a few Ottawas live here] [Platter Creek]		12
To the Elm Meadow [Antwerp]		15
To Sledge Isd [so called from a large stone resembling a sledge]		12
To the Split Rock		6
To the Wolf Rapid [Bull Rapids]		12
To the great Bend		12
To Fort Miamie		15	216
	N .B. The Miamie Nation live opposite the Fort and consist of about 250 men able to bear arms. The Fort is inhabited by Eight or Ten French families.
From Fort Miamie to Cold Fleet where the old French Fort was		3
The carrying place to the little River		9
To the river a'Boite		6
To the Flats		21
To the little Rock [Bull Creek]		3
To the Ouabache [near Huntington, Ind.]		6
	N. B. Between the Miamie & the Ouabache there are Beaver Dams which when water is low Passengers break down to raise it, & by that means pass easier than they otherwise would, when they are gone the Beavers come & mend the Breach, for this reason they have been hitherto sacred, as neither Indians or White People hunt them.
To the River Sallammee on left going down [Slamanie]		15
	N. B. This River is navigable for Canoes 150 miles.
To the Pipe River on the left		18
To the great Rapid		3
To the Erel River on the right [Eel River]		3
To the little Rock		9
To the Island of Garlic [at Delphi]		15
To Richard's Coal mine on the right close to the river		9
To the river Teippeccans on the right to the river [Tippecanoe]		9
	N. B. This River is navigable 150 miles for Boats	18
To Ouiattanon Fort			183
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	This Fort is on the right about 70 yards from the River. The Ouiattanon nation of Indians is on the opposite side, and the Reccapories are round the Fort in both villages about 1000 men able to bear arms.		399

*See appendix.

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