Identifier: westwardmovement00winsuoft (find matches)
Title: The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, Houghton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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FORT HARMAR. (After a cut in the American Pioneer, vol. i., Cincinnati, 1844. The small house in the leftforeground is where St. Clair made the treaty of 17S9. Just above this house is the mouth ofthe Muskingum, and over that the point on which Marietta was built.) the government north of the Ohio. They commanded theroutes to two different portages, both leading to the Cayahogaand Lake Erie. Wharton, in 1770, in addressing Lord Hills-borough, had spoken of the Cayahoga as having a wide anddeep mouth large enough to receive great sloops from the lake. It will hereafter be a place of great importance, he added.It was considered in Virginia that one of the most effective Note.—The map on the two following pages is from Crevecceurs Leltres dun Cultivateur,vol. iii., Paris, 1787, and shows the valleys of the Hockhocking, Muskingum, and Big Beaver, andpurports to be based on observations of Bouquet, and on information from the Shawnee chief,White Eyes. ESQUISS1 ^ J^IUSJSmGHUM
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