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Show 300 APPENDIX. . . I d:d survey for and put in posses· Ramelle and Guilla~~e O·h~er Z R.' the said forty arpents of land, . f the said petitiOner • . ~lOll 0 beginning, &c. Signed-- PATENT. . . H r Baron de Carondolet, &.c. . . '¥ e Franci~ Louis ecto 'f the Patent, sometimes spec•fymg! as Then follows the terms o . . \T roads, bridges, &c. nommal conu.11· t1• 0n o{' the tenure, the keepm~ up in most cases. . · omp1 e te t'tl was circuitous in the ex- 1 e The mode of obtammg a c' rtificate was annexed, the paper was treme. After the commanda~t s ce d laid before the governor,. w?o \hen transmitted to New-Or eans, l~n was \hen returned to the dJStnc; ndorsed tbe order of survey. . 'tted to New-Orleans for fina efo r survey. Aft e r survey, a gam remt cOlnpletion by grant. No. II. . to unite the head waters of the ~lli~o~s C als have been project!"d the sources of lllwcns IS an . h. The country near . . ot with the Lal{e Mtc tgan. . d .some reports respectmg Jt. are n very imperfectly lwown 'r an f other adjacent parts, whtch have '\ reconciled with the lCatures o ~~~~t more accurately surveyed. d Maumee rise in a high table land. The sources of t~e \Vab~sh an m without falls, to the Ohio.; b~t The Wabash flow s m a ra.ptd ~rea 't rn el.tremity of Lake Ene, JS the Maumee, before reac.hmg t e ~~s e . . .I ted over extenstve catara . . 1 ad passed at lllgh prec1 p1 a d stating that canoes l st Reports have beP-n . rna e,. . . 'if so the valley of the latter mu water from Michigan mto llln~o•s ' f .ther the 'VVabash or Maumee be ver much lower than t at . o . ~.. reatl elevat-ed above that rivers, yor the surface of ~ake M•chr'1:~ef that ~an exist between the of Lake Erie. All the dtuerence o t" l to the difference between two latter Ia k es, can beWar nnoe panrodp othre 1 0w1 ater in Lake E n·e . TheMrei-- the country near Fort ay f n can be effected between Lakell y tore, if so easy a c~mmumca JO must flow in a very dee~ va e i chigan and Illinois .nve~, ~he ~~~t~~ the east of its source •. It a. c~~i~l when compared w~h; e ~~g to unite the latter lake a~d n~er, ~} this without locks canf eh o~ d that nature admits in tbe mtenor be the only one o t e m . d continent. . . ication between Lal\e.Ene ank In point of direct utJhtY_, a commu~ rtance than a similar. wor Wabash, would be of iu~mt.ely ~ofeui~fnoa from common expenencl~' to unite Michigan .and llhnOJs. 1 : c that r~ads, bridges, and cana , . t ld be rational to cone u e, l t ~ug~~~o follow' not precede, civilized sett emen • APPENDIX. 01 • ince the preceding articJe was in type, we received through the meJium of t!1e public prints the followi ng information, which we have thought worthy of insertion, as tendi lg to confirm the fact of a communication between Lake Michigan and Illinois river. "Piqua is situated llear the centre section of Miami County, Ohio; it is laid out ou a beautiful eminence on the west b.mk of the Great l\fiami river, about sixteen miles from the Jndian boundary line, which bounds the county on tbe north and Champaign county on the east, Montgomery county on the south, and Clark county on the west. The soil of this county is not surpassed by any in the state in fer tility, yielding in abundance all the differeflt kinds of grain usually cultivated in the western country. Piqua has been laid out as a town since the year 1807, and now contains several buildings that would not dishonour Lexington. Besides the stores, &c. there is a grist-mill and two saw-mills in the town, ara.l one aw-milJ within a mile of the town ; some of tbe best unimproved mill· seats on the Miami are here, and there is no section of 'the country where m 'lis can be employed more profitably, being situated on a stream which empties into the Ohio, and near the na"igabJe waters of Lake Erie. It is 27 miles from this place to St. Mary's, at the head of navigation on the St. Mary's river, from which place ·boats can go at any time, when there is a fre sh in .Fort Meigs, in ten or twelve days. There is a fine body of land lying between this place and Lake Erie, and west of Lake Michigan, car•able of forming two more large states, and supporting as thick a popuJation as any section of the union. It is about two hundred miles from this place to the southeast end of Lake M'ichigan, and I do not remember seeing a· single hundred acres of land in the whole distance on which a good farm could not be made. The great St. Joseph's river, which empties into the southeast- end of Lake Michigan, is navigable almost up to its source. There is no better land in America than is to be found on its banks. This river takes its rise not far from Fort Wayne; it has two br~nches, one called the St. Joseph's, and the other Elk Hart) these unite about eighty miles from the Lake, and form the great St. Joseph's, which is a large deep stream, capable of carrying ve5sels of from eighty to one hundred tons burden, without a single obstruction to the Lake. " Il is a fact that a boat may sail from St. Mary's (27 miles from this pla.ce), proceed past Detroit and through Lfikes St. Clair anu H u.ron, by M ac!ctnaw, up Lake M't'chigan, and ottt through the Chicago river, into the r'iver Plein, and down the Illinois to the Mississ·ippi, without ever bez'ng unloaded-a distance of inland navigation not known in the world elsetq;he,·e." No. III. WESTERN SETTLEMENTS. 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