It takes five days to ascend the River from Chouegen to Fort Bull and three and a half from Fort Bull to Chouegen. The river of the Five Nations [Seneca Riv.] rises in little lakes near which, about six leagues from its entrance into the River Chouegen, the Indians of the Five Nations reside. That river divides into two branches. That from the Right rises in the Lake of the Senecas and Cayugas; that from the left beyond the Lake of the Ononontagugs.

The Junction of the rivers Oneida and Seneca with the Oswego is still known as the Three Rivers, and the Point of

land, as the

Three River's Point.

It is sometimes confounded with

the Three Rivers in Canada, as appears by a note in

Stone's Life of Brant, i, 216. {

Note in the original.-- The River of the Killed Fish [now Fish Creek] flows also into this Lake ; the English used it forthey abandoned it because there was a Portage, and have preferred Vilcrick which they have cleared. ;

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For locations of these Forts, see ante p. 329

;

also Outline Map.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE ONEIDA COUNTRY AND MOHAWK VALLEY.

Fort Williams was situated on the right bank of the River Mohawk or des .Agnies, near the rise It was abandoned and destroyed by the English after the capture of Chouegen. of that river on the height of land.

Leaving Chouegen there is a road over which the English used to drive cattle & horses. This road follows the border of the left bank of the River Chouegen. The Five Nations river is passed at a fall near its entrance into the River Chouegen, after which the road proceeds along the edge of the right bank of the Five Nation's river to the Village of the Onnontagues whence it proceeds across the