attached to a tree the arms of the King."[1] Father Bonnécamps gives, as the name of this river, Jenanguékoua. This, the fourth plate, was interred at the mouth of the Muskingum River in Ohio, on the site of old Fort Harmar and within the present city of Marietta. This plate, found in 1798 by some boys bathing in the Muskingum, was presented to the Antiquarian Society of Massachusetts in the library of which it is now preserved.
On the sixteenth at nine o'clock, the party resumed its journey, making nearly twelve leagues. On the seventeenth Céloron makes record of having seen two "beautiful" rivers the names of which he says he does not know. "I disembarked early to hunt, being altogether reduced to a diet of bread."[2]
The journey was resumed at an early hour the next day, but the party was forced to camp at noon, as the rain prevented their continuing. On this day, the eighteenth of August, the fifth leaden plate was "buried, at the foot of a tree, on the south-
