132 the water cast back by reflection the visages of those victims into the warriors’ faces, which so horrified the superstitious Indians that they mounted in affright, galloping off on the Sandusky trail as Williamson and Crawford’s suivivors had gone the other .way only one hundred days before. The facts were so wonderfully coincident as to appear supernatural. The legend says that a mist suddenly enveloped the spring, from out of which came the God of the Christian, and Mannitto. the God of the heathen, who, viewing the ruins made by their followers, banished each his kind, obliterated each the remaining structures of the other, and decreeing that in the coming time even the spring should shrink from human sight, then eaeh departed to his etherial home to renew their never-ending conflict between Christian and heathen on some other line. There are men now living who have drank from this historic spring, but after Zeisberger died—-after his last Indian had departed, to return no more, the legend was verified—the water of the spring did shrink from human sight and .human use, and remains unfit for use to this day.
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