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| Title | The Allegheny Pilot
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| Full Text | MAP NO. 1.—ALLEGHENY RIVER. themselves, and in sOme instances brought others in with them. There is no need of ever going to the left of this Island with a raft. The deepest, safest, and best channel, is to the extreme right of all these Islands, till past the lower Grass Flat. And when down even with the foot of the last named Island hold to the left, and prepare for SCOTT'S ISLAND. ----- 1 1/4 - 6 Channel to the left. This Island is a kind of a Tadpole shaped thing, lying close to the right shore. There is but little water to the right of it. At the foot of the Island, on the right, is Scott's Eddy. BIG BROKENSTBAW CREEK. ----- 1 - 7 This creek rises in Erie County, Pa., and after receiving the waters of Coffee, Hair, Spring, Mullengar, and the Little Brokenstraw Creeks, empties into the Allegheny about seven miles below Warren. The Little Brokenstraw takes its rise in Chautauqua County, not far from the head waters of French Creek, and empties into the Big Brokenstraw 7 miles above its mouth. The lumbering business is extensively pursued on all the above named tributaries. From four to six million feet of lumber, and from ten to fifteen million shingles, go down the Allegheny from this point every year. A few rods below the mouth of the creek, on the right, is Brokenstraw Eddy, the great place of preparation for all the Brokenstraw lumbermen. The village and land for a considerable distance around, is owned entirely by Dr. Wm. A. Irvine, grandson of Gen. Wm. Irvine of the Revolutionary army, who was for several years engaged as Commissioner for the States in superintending the survey of lands north-west of the Allegheny under the land law of 1792. Dr. Wm. A. Irvine inherited this land from his father, the late commissory Gen. Calendar Irvine, who came to this place in 1795, erected a cabin, and placed it in charge of a faithful negro servant, by way of perfecting an "actual settlement." On the flats near the Eddy, once stood an Indian village, called Buckaloon, which was destroyed by a detachment under Col. Broadhead, from Pittsburgh, in 1781, It required a siege of several days to drive out the Indians, who retreated to the hills in the rear of the village. Several days afterwards, |
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