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Show TRAVELS 'tHROUGH UPPER CANADA: On the fixth even.m g o f out. voyage we fiopped ne.a rly oppofi te tu Point aux IroquOl· ' wr name d 1r om ,a Fre.n ch family havmg been l..ruelly I I . . I diaus 10 the early age of the colony. mafi~lC rcd there by t 1e JOquots 11 • The around b <:.m g H.rl.l" ll ex tJ· c' mely wet here ' in confcqucnce of th.e hea- vy ram• ob f the pr.e cc d.m g d·,l y, ' ve did not much reli£h the t. hou. gh. ts o, f pa:Omg 1 , 1 the n. I . . t ' t. yet there feemed to be uo alteJ natt vc, as t 1C on y 1g 1t m out en , f n: 1 . houfe m. fight was ct .o w d e d w1' th people ' and not capable o. • a'·a o. r.c m. g us any accommo d atw. ns. L uc k 1·1 y ' however ' as we wet e fe.u chm. g about for the driefl- fpot to pitch our tent upon, OJ:e of th_e _p~rty cfpted a barn at a ]t. tt1 e d"Jlal an ce ' belonging to the man of th. e adJ0111ll1g houf~, of whom we pr.o cure d tl 1c key.' it was well fiorcd wrth fir.tw, and hav- m· g mounted to t 11 c top o f the mow ' we laid .o urfel vcs dow. n .t o rd l,. and Dept foundly there till awa <ened in the monung by the cwwmg of iome cocl s, that were perched on the beams above our head. At an early hour we purfucd our voyage , and before noon paffcd t h c 1a (lL. 1·. apt· d , ",, bout three miles below the mouth of O. fwegatchee River, the mofl: confi krablc of thofe within th tcrrttory of the United States, which fall into the St. Lawrence. It confi!ls of three branches, that unite together about fifteen miles above its mouth, the mofi wd1ern of which i[ ues fi-om a lake twenty miles in length and e1· o-11 t m· b1 ·e a dth · Ar1otl1er· of the bra< nches iffuc · from a fin:tlllal e or p~nd, only about fcur miles di{bnt from the w fl:ern branch of IIudfon's River, that flows pafi New York. Both the Iludfon and Ofwerratchce are [aid to be capable of being made navigable for light ba teaux ~s far as this fpot, where th ey approach within fo fhort a di!bncc of each other, except only at a few places, fo th at the portages will be but very tr ifling. This however i a mere conjeCture, for Ofwegatchec River is but very imperfce\.ly known, the country it raffes throu3h bting qnite uninhabited ; bu t !ho~tld it be foun d, at a future period, that thcfe riv c.rs arc in dt:ed capable of being rendered navigable fo far up the country, it will pwl•: bly be through this hannel that the ch ief part of the trade that thLre lll.ty ha p~·en to be between New York and the country bordering upon Lak · Ontario will be c rricd on. It is at prcknt carrieJ on bL"twceu that city and the lak~; by means of IIudfon River, 'FORT LA GALET TF.. 'l7J l'tivcr, as far as Alba 1y, and frcm thcnc hy mems of tl c J\1cJhawl r, River, Vood Crcd, La! c OncidJ, ~nd Ofwl.'go Ri cr, \\hie 1 falls into l~akc Ontario. The haroour at the mout!J of ()[\;ego P ivLt· is very hnd on account f the fand bJ.nl s ; nolle bt t fLtt butt line i v ii'tl.; c:m ::1pproacb with f~1fcty nearer to it th1n two miks; ,,or is tLac any good harbotu· n the fouth fide of L·1 ·c Ontario in the mirrlllKlut hood ul attv • • J lat gc rivers~ Sharp uuilt vcn·ls, howcv T, of a cnnfitl.:t . .J,Je li~.:..;, can nppr >ach wi th f; fety o the mouth o' 0(wegatchet.: Riv~r. Tl!..: Scn..;ca, n 13riti{h vdfd of war oftwenty-iix guoJ', ufc.liormc.:r j to Fly con tlan tly 1 ct veen f.'ort de Ia G:~L:ttc , fituated at the mouth of t 1at river, and the fort at Nir1gara ; anti tltc Dri tiD1 fur fhi ps o 1 the lah.:s ufccl ali(), at th at ti r,ie, to d[(<..Jw·gc the cargoes there, brought down from the upjh.'l' cou ntry. 1\s thcr fore the harbour at the mouth of Ofwcg<Hchc i~ 1~) mu ·h better than that at the mouth of Ofwcgo I ive1·, anc.l as ~h ey arc n ·ally an equal difbn e from New York, there is rettfon to li.1ppofi·, tha t if the Ii\er t,a viga tio it Dwuld prove cqu,dly good, the tl"<Hk betw en the 1. kc.:s :tn l New York will be for the mol1 part, if not wholly, carried on by means of O~vcga tchc:c rather th.m of Ofwcgo River. With a fait' " ind, the paffi1gc from fwcgatchce River to Niagara i_, accompliihcd in two days; a voyage or Iy one day longer than that from Ofwcg0 to. !\iag:na with a fc.1ir vind. Fort de l.t Gal ·tt \Yas erected by the French, and though not built till lot1g afte r F ort CatarJguis r I• rontignac, now Kingflon, yet they dlc<:t 1 a Jt by Jar them im,1crtant miliu ry pofl: on the St. Lnvrcncc, in t 1e upper coun try, as it was impofJibl for nny boat or vcffc 1 to raf i1p or down that river without being obfervccl, wh-:rcas they might cafily c(capc unfccn b ·hind the many il1ands oppofitc to lGng fl on. Sinct.: the dofe of the American war, Fort de b. Galcttc has been difm ~ ntk ; as it was wi thin the territory of the United States; 1 or would any ad"' a Hag· have arifcn from its n.:tention; for it w.~s never of any importance to us but as a trading poit, and as ii.1ch Kingfl:cm, which is within our own tenito.ry, is far more eligibly iituated in cvccy point of j w; it has a more fi fc and ommociious harbour} and the fllr {hip ·oming .<Jowll 1ro~ Ni ~1_.g· ra, by £topping .th r , ,an: Lived .t voy.1ge of ) N n fi:x ty |
