Reached the Indian village on the reservation at this place, at 9
o’clock in the morning.
Indians call the place Te-o-ni-gon-o, or De-o-ni-gon-o, which means
Cold Spring.
Locality of the farmer employed by Quakers, at the mouth of a creek,
called Tunasassa; means a clear stream with a pebbly bed.
Allegany river they call Oh_e_o, making no difference between it, and
the stream after the inlet of the Monongahela.
Gov. Blacksnake absent; other chiefs, with his son Jacob meet in
council; business adjusted with readiness.
Allegany river low; very different in its volume of water and
appearance from what it was 27 years before, when I descended it, on my
way to the WEST.
Lumbering region; banks lined with shingles, boards, saw logs. Indians
act as guides and lumbermen.
Not a favorable location for the improvement of the Senecas. Steal
their timber; cheat them in bargains; sell whiskey to them.
Had the imaginative Greeks lived in Allegany county, they would have
pictured the Genesee and Allegany rivers, as two girls, who having
shaken hands, parted, the one to skip and leap and run eastward to find
the St. Lawrence, and the other to laugh through the Ohio valley, until
she gradually melted into the ocean in the gulf of Mexico.