[80] Josiah Morrow offers this correction for future editions of Armstrong's _Journal_: "The printed journal of Armstrong's makes the first ten miles of the third day in a northwest course. Even if this be understood as meaning west of north, it would take the army to the west of West Chester in Butler County. If we assume northwest to be an error for northeast, 'the first five miles over a dry ridge to a lick' would bring the army to the lick at Lick School-house in Deerfield township, Warren county; and the next 'five miles through a low swampy country to a branch of the waters of the Little Miami' would be over the swampy land of early times in the vicinity of Mason, and there is a tradition that the army stopped for a time on Little Muddy creek, on the farm formerly owned by Joseph McClung, north of Mason." [81] MSS. in possession of Josiah Morrow, Lebanon, Ohio. [82] A western tributary of the Little Miami, down which Harmar is supposed to have marched to Fish-pot Ford, was formerly known as Harmar's Run. [83] Armstrong's printed _Journal_ reads Sugar Creek for Cæsar's Creek. Either this was an older name or the result of a typographical error. As the name Cæsar comes from a negro who resided here with the Indians, it is probable that, as Josiah Morrow assumes, "the soldier wrote Seezar or Seizar, which the printer mistook for Sugar." [84] A station on the Big Four Railway, twelve miles northeast of Troy. [85] In General Wayne's campaign in 1794 a trace known as "Harmar's Trace" was crossed just south of the St. Mary River in Mercer County (see p. 207). If Harmar recrossed the St. Mary and proceeded south of the river to "Shane's Crossing" (Rockford, Mercer County) this is the only record of it. [86] The Irwin MS. account of the operations of the army on the Maumee is intensely vivid, and, though incomplete, should be preserved in lasting form. It will be found in Appendix C. [87] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. ix, ch. 2. [88] _American State Papers_, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 129. [89] _Id._, p. 171. [90] _Id._, p. 172. This project was suggested by General St. Clair the year previous, but was not countenanced by the Government. _American State Papers_, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 100. [91] _Id._, p. 172. [92] _American State Papers_, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 192. Officers who had orders from Butler to march were, in some instances, delayed nearly a week before they received the necessary provisions with which to do so.--St. Clair's _Narrative of the Campaign against the Indians_ (1812), p. 228. [93] _Id._, p. 193. [94] St. Clair's _Narrative_, p. 12. [95] _Id._, p. 207. [96] Cummingsville--"six miles from the fort [Washington], along what is now 'Mad Anthony Street.'"--_History of Hamilton County_, (Cleveland, 1881), p. 78. [97] Knox to Washington, October 1, 1791, _American State Papers_, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 244.