Conrad Weisers Journal of a Tour to the Ohio August 11 October 2 1748
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Celoron says of the site of her first village: "This place is one of the most beautiful I have seen on the Beautiful River [la Belle Riviere, the French name for the Ohio]. " ED. 17 Logstown (French, Chinnigne, Shenango) was the most important Indian trading village in that part of the country. It was a mixed village com- posed of Indians of several tribes chiefly Iroquois, Mohican, and Shawnee. When Celeron visited it a year after Weiser's sojourn, he spoke of it as "a very bad village, seduce...d by the desire for the cheap goods of the English. " He was near being attacked here, being saved by discovering the plot, and dis- playing the strength of his forces. Like Weiser, he was received with a salute of guns, but feared it was more a sign of enmity than amity. Later, the Indians of this village returned to the French alliance, and after the founding of Fort 1748] Weiser' s "Journal 25 From the Place where we took Water, i. E. From the old Shawones Town, commonly called Chartier's Town, 18 to this Place is about 60 Miles by Water & but 35 or 40 by Land.
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