Excerpt from Expedition of Celoron to the Ohio Country in 1749 The circumstances under which' this plate was discovered are stated on a succeeding page and more fully in Hildreth's Pioneer History of the Ohio Valley pages 19 and 20. The names Of the boys who discovered the plate are not given. In The Olden Time, Vol. 1, pages 238-24i, is published an account Of the discovery of the plate at the mouth of the Great Kanawha. This plate was found by a little son of J. W. Beale, while playing on the margin Of the river. The writer in The Olden Time makes the follow ing comment on the inscription of this plate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.