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Show TRAVELS TIIROUGH NOR'TII AMERICA: r. 1· ·t 1 ·avy la01 feemcd a~ d f 't a11 tl the animal no longer 11 c mg I s lC, ' . maca. 1 •' f the abbcfs of i\ndond·1 ets to <YO no 1·.t rtl1t-. 1' • dctcnmned a· the mule 0 . 1 . , . 1 . ld 1 1 bantcrmg th fellow upon t le exec - In this GtuatlOn we cou not 1C P . . . . 1 1 . ·1 1 . I a:l. bonDed fo much of at fctting our, an\.1 he knceof hiscatte, wHc l 1C .c , L • •• , . 11 . I . t 1 at we f\ iJ . but bavuvr acculenta y was ready to cry Wit 1 vexatiOn a w 1. • ' . u . m-entioned the fum we had paid for the . carri~rrc,. bls P· {h~n c~l:l.d 1 l . (l . J and it broke forth 111 all1tS iury. lt .lppc.u cd no onger )C It rame ' ' [ 1 1 ·!( l for th ..: uL of th ~tn, that he was the owner of two o t le 101 cs, anc . and for dri 'ing the carriage, was to hav lnd one half cf the h_lre; ~ut h 1 \vh ol11 \v ~ hod a~r. d with, and p:1id at AI )any, had g1 ven hun t e m,u o . . . . nly ten dollars :1S his moie ty, afEtring bin ' at the i.'unc tr~ 1C,. ll1~t Jt \ ··~- . exaCtly tbe half of what we had given, although 1n rl'ahry 1t fe_ll fho. t of the fum by [even dollar and a hal f. Thus cheated by lus co_mpanion, and left in the lurch by his _horfes, h~ vowed vengeance ncra.J_nfl: him 011 his return; but as pr tdbt10ns of t ts natu re would llOt bt mg us any fooncr to 0 1r j urn ey 's end, and as it was necdi·uy ~hat fo :1~ t 1in o- i}10uld be immediat ·ly done, if we did not wifh to rcm:un all nJgnt in the wood~, we fuggcfl:cd the idea, in the mean time, of hi conducting the forcll\ofl: horfes as poflillion, whilfl: 01 e of ur fcrvants_ fhou11 drive the pair next to the wheel. This pLm was not fiat ted W1th any dc_jrce of ferioufn efs, for we cou1Ll not have ft~ ppofe~ tl at a t.all mcag1 c fellow, upwards of fix feet hi rh, and clad m a p~nr of thm nan! ccn breeches, would very readily beH.ride the raw boned back of a. horfc, covered with the profu [e exudation which t 1e in ten ft.: he• t of t 1c \ 't:lth r, and the la our the animal had gone tl rough, neccihri.y excited. As mnch tired, however, of our plea[J.ntrie as we were of his vehicle, and thin ki:lg of nothin~, I bcliev , but how he could be ge t rid of u ~, c ea~:,crly c1nbraccd the propofal, :tnd accordingly, having furnifl1cd himfelf with a [witch from th~ adjoining t 1ick t, he mounted his harncfi~ d Rofin :~nte. In this fiyle we proccc led ; but more than once did O\ll' gigantic poitillion turn round to bemoan the fony hoicc he h,1d made; as often did we urge the necefi!ty of betting ou t of the woo·is; he could make no anfwcr; fo jogging flow y :1.long, we at hfi. reached tht. 1ttlc town of Skendborough, much to the amufcment of every one who S K E N E S D 0 R 0 U G IT. who beheld our equipage, alnd much to our own ftti~f:\tlion; for, o·:.r in .... to the var·ous actidcnt· we had 1 let wid1 , fuch as tr.1< ·; t :·~.!"king, bri IlLs flip} in r fT the hc.1ds of the horf s, , nd : H.: no I· ho11ct. th 1 1- fdves iomctin1cs flipping down, &c. c c. we had lJccn no kf· than 1ive hours in travelling the lafl: twelve Jllilcs. SJ·.·nciborouo-h il:ands jufl: ;:hove the jnntlion f \Vood Cree' . vid1. South I ivcr, as it is call ·d in the bdl maps, but which, by t1 c pcopl...! in the nc:ighhourhood, is confi.d ·red as a part of Lakv Cl :'ll L.J,la;n. At pr fcnt t L~..:rc arc only about t\ clvc houfcs in the p l.u:_; but i - t 1c navigruion of \Voorl Creek is c·1er opencL\ fo as to co.1nc<'J: Lake C!JJmpbin with the North iver, a (heme whic 1 has :d rc.\dy b en ierioui y thought f, it will, doubt! Is, foon become a trad ino- town of confilhahle import<1nce, as all the vari us produCtion of the £bores of the lak<: will then be colleCted there .{( r the New Yod< alhl i\ll Jny marl>.c • Notwi• hflanJing all the di(~tt vantages of a land arriag" of orty 1 1ile: to the North R ive r, a fmall portion of flour and pot-a{h, the i apl· com mod· tics of the il:atc of N cw York, is already [t~, t to Skenci:. boro11gh fi-om diffc r tllt part. of the lake, to be forwani-..d to Albany. A confidcrablc tra ~.; alf is carried n through this place, Qnd over Ln ~c Cha•npbin, b~twe<:n New Yod..;: and 'anad a. I• ur a1Hl horfcs principally arc fcnt from Canada, and in return they ge t Eall: I1:dian goods and various m anul~tClure ... . L·1ke Champ ain op.:ns a very rc, Jy communi-cation between r cw y OJ k and the COlli try bordcrino- on the St. L:nvrcnce; it is cmphatica 'I y called by the Indians, Caniad-Eri Guarunte, the mouth or door or the country. Skendborough is mofl drcr.dfully infdlcd with 1 Hltqllitoes; io many of them attackc l us the firi1 night of our f1ceping t 1crc, that when we nrofe in the morning o~1r face • 1Hl hands wcr ·cover d a 1 over with 1argc pufl ulc., pr ciii.:ly like tho!(; of a perion in the iinall pox. Tl1is happened too notwithilanding t at the people of the houil;, before\' went to bed, had tal en all the p.lins po lible to lear the room of them, by fumigatin~ it with the fmoLe of orcen wood, and afterwards iccuring the windows with gauze blmds; and even on the fecond night, alth ugh we deftroycd maJ y dozen of them on the walls, after a fimi-y 2 bt• |
