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[22] A northern tributary which flows into the Ohio about half a mile below Bellaire, Ohio--ED.

[23] Little Grave Creek flows into the Ohio from the West Virginia side, a hundred miles below Pittsburg. The village of Elizabethtown now lies at its mouth, upon the left bank. A mile below is Big Grave Creek; and Moundsville, West Virginia, is between the two streams. Near here, frontiersmen murdered a number of Shawnee, in 1774, leading to Lord Dunmore’s War. For other historic incidents of this locality, see Cuming’s _Tour_, volume iv of our series, notes 77, 78.--ED.

[24] Another description of this mound is given in Cuming’s _Tour_,