p29 1817 Journal Thomas Dean

PART VI Vovaos rnoM rim Mourn or THE Wan.-xsn Rrven to VINCENNES.

July 9th, 1817. We arrived in the mouth of the Wabash River at about 6 o'dock A. M. after passing 1,003 miles on the Ohio River, 30 miles on the Chautauqua Lake and its waters; the Conewauge River, 25 miles; Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, 197 miles; total, 1,255 miles; the grand total route we came from home, 1,546 miles. Being a long time an our way, and in much rain, we concluded to lay by and wash some of our clothes and clean ourselves. So we ran up the Wabash River four or live miles and went on shore, took breakfast, and made a wash. I was quite sick by tak~ ing a drink of buttermilk and water. The Wabash appears to be a handsome river, about 270 yards wide, its current smooth and not very rapid, with handsome sandy banks, though subject to be overhown by the water for several miles on each side, so that at times the river spreads to the width ,of ten or fifteen miles, and some said twenty miles; that the banks could not be settled with safety, therefore we found but few houses. We got through with our wash and dinner and all on board about 7 P. M., and rowed upstream about four and one-half miles to a house on the Indiana shore and took lodgings on the Boor.

July 10t.h. We concluded to take breakfast before we started, so we cooked on shore, took breakfast, settled with