The New Hampshire Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, August 21.

Advices from Pittsburgh, of the 17th Inst. mention every Thing going on well there then; that the Day before a Party had gone up the Ohio, in Battoes, to take Post at Venango; and that another had set off that Day with Cattle for the same Place.

From Presque Isle, (July 18) we learn, that 400 Royal Americans who arrived there the 17th of that Month, from Pittsburgh, had embarked for Niagara, in a Number of Whaleboats and Battoes, sent by Gen. Amherst for that purpose, which 400, with those that came in these Boats, made up 900, and it was thought would give the People at Detroit a good deal of Uneasiness: That the Indians that Way seemed much surprized at the Appearance of our Forces, but used them very civilly, lent them several Horses, to supply those that tired on the Road: That the Country between Pittsburgh and Presque Isle (Distance 140 Miles) was generally hilly, and the Soil but indifferent; but that betwixt Venango and Presque-Isle our People met with the finest Meadows they had ever seen, some of them two Miles and a Half long, and a Mile broad, without a Tree or Brush, and the Grass 5 Feet 8 Inches high; and they were told by the Indians, that there were such Savannahs for 20 Miles further up. The Distance from Pittsburgh to Venango 80 Miles. Our Men are building a Fort at Presque-Isle. The Allegheny is said to be very shallow, and hardly navigable for Canoes.