volume x of our series, note 39. Concerning Bainbridge, consult Faux's

_Journal, ante_, note 109.--ED.

[26] This was probably the common poison ivy (_Rhus toxicodendron_).--ED.

[27] From another party which passed, I learned that the well-known Colonel Boon is still alive in the Missourie country; though the journals lately gave a circumstantial account of his death.--WELBY.

_Comment by Ed._ Boone died September 26, 1820.

[28] This was the last important Indian cession in Ohio. September 29, 1817, the Wyandot, Seneca, Delaware, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Chippewa ceded a large tract bounded on the east by the previous treaty line--namely, a line drawn south from a point a few miles east of the head of Sandusky Bay, and on the south by the old Greenville treaty line (see Evans's _Tour_, in our volume viii, note 51), and the St. Mary's River.--ED.

[29] For the early history of Blue Licks, see Cuming's _Tour_, in our