up and down, or lie under trees, have a dejected appearance, and exhibit the ravage of disease in every feature, and the tremor of the ague in every step. Their motive for settling the town must have been to catch what they can from persons descending the river, and from people emigrating from the S.W. parts of Virginia, with a view of settling lower down the river, and who must make Point Pleasant a place of deposit and embarcation. Were it not for the unhealthiness of the town, it would not be unreasonable to presume that this circumstance would render it in time a place of considerable note. Point Pleasant is two hundred and seventy miles from Pittsburg. LETTER XXII. Farther particulars of the Great Kenhaway River-Lead mines-attrocious massacre of Indians, the family of the celebrated Logan, the friend of the whites-its consequences— the battle of Point Pleasant-the speech of Logan-Catalogue of Indian birds-Cha. racter of the Mocking-bird and the Virginia Nightingale. Mouth of the Great Kenhaway, I FIND the great Kenhaway to be a river of considerable character for the fertility of its lands, and still more, as leading towards the head waters of James's river. Nevertheless it is doubtful whether its great and numerous rapids will admit a navigation, but at an expence to which it will quire ages to render the inhabitants re equal. The great obstacles begin at what are called the great falls, ninety miles above the mouth, below which are only five or six rapids, and three passable with some difficulty, even at low water. From the falls to the mouth of Greenbrier River is one hundred miles, and from thence to the lead mines, one hundred and twenty. The lead is found-mixed, sometimes with earth, and sometimes with rock, which requires the force of gunpowder to open; and is accompanied with a portion of silver, too small to be worth separation under any process hitherto attempted. The proportion yielded is from fifty to eighty pounds of pure lead, from one hundred pounds of washThe veins are at sometimes the most flattering, and others they disappear suddenly and totally. They enter the side of the hill and proceed horizontally. Two of them are wrought ed ore. by the public, the more valuable of which is one hundred yards under the hills. These would employ about sixty labourers to advantage. There are not, however, in general, more than forty, and even these find time to cultivate their own corn. The veins have produced sixty tons of lead in a year; the average is from twenty to twentyfive tons. The furnace is a mile from the ore-bank, and on the opposite side of the river. The ore is first conveyed in waggons to the Kenhaway, a distance only a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes and carried across the river, which is there about two hundred yards wide; and then again taken into waggons and carried to the furnace. From the furnace the lead is transported one hundred and thirty miles along a good road, leading through the peaks of Ottie and Lynch's ferry, whence it is carried by water about the same distance to Westham, where it finds its way by James River and the Potomac to the markets of the Eastern States. Very little of the lead ever descends the river in consequence of the falls just below the mines, three of which have a perpendicular chute of four feet each. Three miles above the mines is a rapid of three miles continuance. Yet the obstructions might be removed for so useful a navigation as to reduce very much the portage to James River, and facilitate the descent to the Ohio, where the mouth is two hundred and eighty yards wide. The banks of the Great Kenhaway were once the favorite resort and residence of several Indian tribes. The ruins of their little empires every where abound. The towns from which they were banished, and the villages in which they were immolated at the shrine of insatiate avarice, ambition and |