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Show a mile from the springs at Salina to the viinityof Syracuse, where it anmm\ by the sun i shallow vessels, and the salt erystlized. - The works are to the north of S A several vouds and canals cross at this place, we had to wait for passengers, L\\K\mllvfo .-mqum..u, Jke Ostwego, which is novw navigated. by steam-boats. - During thi the traces of the extensive fire which had take in the prece many buildings h been reb s of the fire are everywhere to be se o southwest of Syracuse thero s an L\hrw(nvm"rv bounded by woode emitionces,in mm. many neat villages are seen; among them one callad Onondago Hill upo a verdant ising, is worthy of notice, the remnants. I\Vcflwmvdugu Indians being settle here, 1t ,\mw.».\ 0 bo cight spot where the chief town, Onondago, lay. Here they had their counci firs, and here u.c powerful and warlke nation deliberated on \»m.maffirs, resolvod upon war, concluded Onondago Hill is sad to b t town, and was formerly the seat of the courls of justice, which, however, are no i Syracuse. At the latter place we s several Onondago Indians, who do not muc ifer. rom tho Senecas and Tuscaroras; their costum s exactly sn far, and the women were als wrapped in white bankts After some delay, our boat pursued its e andI saw lrge tracts of land entiely covere with the stumps. of woods. that had be others with the remains of stems burn black, which prosent a sigolar, unaézactive ight. Th dry helghts ar coverd with pine, o which the inhabitants affem that six diffrent sors e here found-the hemlack, the spruce, th white, the yellow, the Norway, and the pitch pi two ltter of which grow on barre grounds We took on board a great number of passengers at Syracuse, 5o that our boat was erowde for the accommodation of so many peopl of every description and of both sexes, were extremely _ymhu()m and well ontrived Beond the village of Ma oy o observedthickets of Arbor s, cspecill where pines flourish, - After passing Cl hmmu;.» Creck we came to the vllage of the same a e houses, and couple of churches. Th of the six nations, and have retaine of the national featur than the men. We were informed that some of these peaple. were t embark here an oce d to Green Bay, near which the Digital image© 2004 Marriot Libvary, University of Utah. Al ighs reserved |