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Show DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY. About half way up the banks, :-~t the difbncc of a few hundred y::mls from ~1ccnflown, there is a very xtenfive range of \.voodcn b::uracks, which, when viewed a little way oil: appears to grc:1t adva ntage; theJe barracks arc now quite unoccupic l, and it is not prohabJc that they will ever b u(cd until the climate improve : the 1irfl: troor that were lodged in them fickencd in a very few day after their :urival; many f the men died, and had not thok that rcma inr d alive been r :noved, purCuant to the advice of thc phyfi ian , to other quarters, the whole rcg11nrnt might poftibly havc perilh d. From the town of Niagara to ~cenfrown, the country in the n2igh-. bourhood of the river is very level; but h er'- it put on a difrcrent afjK:Cl:; a confuft:d r,UJg of hills, covered with o.:tks of an immen(c fizc, fud cknly rifcs up before you, and the road that wind up the fide of them is fo fi:ccp and rugged that jt i at Lolutcly ncccffiu-y for the tr.t- ' vcllcr to leave his carriage, if he fhould be in one, and proceed to the top on foot. I3eyond thcfe hills yon again come to an unbroken 1 vel country; but the ioil here dif1crs materially from tha.t .on the oppolitc fide; it confiO:s of a ri h dark earth intermi, ed with clay, and abounding with fiones; whereas, on the fide next Lake On tat io, the foil is of a yellowiih c:1.fi:, in fome places jnclining to gravel and in others to [and. From the brow of one of 'the hills in this ri ... lgc, which ovcrhaJJgs the little village of ~ecnfiown, the cye of the traveller is gratified with one of the fincfl:} rofpeCt~ that can be imarrincd in nature: you !land amid{l: a clump of large oaks, a little to th left of the road, and lookinrr downwards, perceive, through the br:tnches of tbe tre~.: s with v.·hi h the hill is clothed from the fummit to the bafe, the top of the houlcs of ~1eenfl:own, and in front of the vill<1ge, the {hips moored in the river; the !hips are at I a11 two hundred feet below you, and th ir mafls :lppcar like .flcnder reeds peeping up amiJO: the thick foliage of the tret.:;. Carrying your ey forward, you may tra e the river in all its winJirws, and finally iec it difemboguc into Lake Ontario, between the town and the fort: the lake itfelf tcrminates your view in this direCtion, except merely at one part of the horizon, where you jufl: gc:t a glimpfc of the blue hills of Toronto. The tJwre of the nvt r, on the right hand, 4 rcmams |