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Show 26 T I~ AVE .. S T II R 0 U G II UP P •. R CANADA : 1111 1 c.m ying them i ~ 1 a hun 1lc on our h1cl-s. SC\ cral parti s of Indian:. th :1 t mer c 'Jing do 'lt the river inc, 11ocs were fLu k nak ·J. The banks of Ni:ltra r,t River, betw ·en l hipp..:w, y and Fort Erie, ar· ~ vcr; low, and covu'l'd, for th- moll: 1 ~rt, with { 1rubs, under whofc {hade, upon tl1c gr:,vd y beach of the ri ver, the weary travel! r fin ls an ag rc<.!ablc rcfl'ng } lace. I• or the 1irfi: f w miles from ChipJ C·· way there :tre fc11·c'-ly any lwuf..:s to be (c . .:n ; bnt about half way b .... - twecn that placL: <'I d Fort Eric they ar~ thi ckly fcatt:ercd alon6 the bank'> of the 1ivcr. 'l I c Lcuics in this neinhbourhood were remarkably weU built, and appearcll to h~; kept in a 1htc of great n~..<ltnd~; mo{l of them were fllc.tthcd w;th bo.1rds, :t lld painted white. Tlu.: lands ad~ joining them arc rich, at.d \Vert.! well cul tivatuJ. ' 'he rops of Indian corn were flill il.anJing here, which had a mofi luxuriant ali. cO: ; in many of the i1elds then.: diLl not appear to be a ficm lds than eight feet in height. Bctw e:1 the rows they fow gourds, fq uafhes, and melons, of which lafl: every fort attains to a J1:ate of great perfeCtion in the open air throughout the inhabited parts nf the two provinces. Peaches in this part of the country likewif ome to perfeCtion in the open air, but in Lower Canada, the fumme1 s arc too fhort to 1 ermi t them to ripen fufficicntly. T he winters here are very fcverc whilfl: they lafi, but it i· fcldom that the fi10w lies longer than three months on the ground. The fummcrs arc intenkly hot, Fahrcnh<.: it's thermometer often rifing to 96", and fomctimes ab 'IC Ioo•. As I paO\.:d alo11g to Fort Erie I killed a great many large fnakes of differen t for ts th at I found bafking in the fL111. Amongll: then I did not find any ra ttlcf11akes; thefc reptiles, however, are very commonly met wirh here; and at the diflance of twen ty r thirty miles from the river, up the country, it is [aid that they ar fo numerous as to render the furveying of bnd a matter ot very great dan rrcr. It is a circumfianc Hrongly in f. vour of Lower CanaJa, that the rattlefn ~1kc is not found there ; it is feJdom found, indeed, to the northward of the forty-fifth parallel of north latitu c. F ort Eric il.ands at the cafiern extremity of Lake Eric; it is a [mall fiockadcd fort, fomewhat fimilar to that at Chippcway; and adjoining * it D AD A C C 0 M M 0 D AT I 0 N. it :1.rc c.·tcn fivc fiorc as at Chi )pcway, and abou t half a dozen mifcr.1.bk little c \'dlin!~~ . On arriving the re I had no diflicu1ty in difcovering my CCJ n;·a11ions; I found th m lo lg..:d in a finall log-ho 1[e, which conuim:d but the one rcom, anu j ttfllit ting dow11 to a [upper, they had procllr d through the af11flancc of a g<.:£ Jtlemon in the I1 1dian ckpartmcnt, \Vho acco 1 pat ic I t lcm fi-om Chipp•..: way. This habitation was t 1c l'r pcrty of an Ll \:oman, wbo in her younger lhys h td f: llow d the drum, and now gaitH d her liv lihood by ac om1no lating, to the b f1: of hcr power, fu c.h travclkrs as l .ttr·d by l• rt Eric. A furry ht~bit.: tion it w.1s; the cr:1:q ioor W<.IS ready to drop off lhe hinrres, and in all the thr '-' ' ·indows of it not one pane of gi.ds , a:; th ere, a youn~r g ntl ·man fr m I troil ha ·in~~~~ nub! h ;m(cl'~ wllilfi detained in the place by antra ·y w'nds, fomc litdc t;me before om arriva l, vvith !hooting arrows through them. It was not likely that the(e windows 'ould be fp edily repaired, for no glnicr w,1s to be met with nearer than 1 ewarl·, hir y- fix miles di ,lilt. IIcre, as we hy folded in our fki ns on the i1oor, the rain beat in upon us, and the wind whiil.lcd about our cars; but this was not the worl1. In th' morning we; found it a dif1icu] t m:ltter to gd wherewith t fati fy our hu nger; dinner was more ditlilldt to be had than brcakfail, fupp r than dinner ; there fccmcd to be : greater fctlrcity of proviGons aHo tlu.: fecond dny than there was on the .firft. At hdl, fearing ll tt we {houl 1 l>c l<uniihed if we remained longer under the ca re f old m ther l'.1lml r, we cml arkc: cl at once on board the veffd of w.u· in whi· h we in lcndcd t0 ro(s the J 1k , wh re al hc)ugh fum time tofit.d about hy thl.! r.:ging co11tr: ry wind.~, y t we had cotnfurtablc birth,·, < nd Lrcd pl-:ntcouily every day. Ships lie oppohtc tu Port En', at the diihnce o ·. about one hundred. yards frot tbe fhqrc; th ·y are there cxpol::d to all the violence of the wdtl.rly winds, ·ut th..: nne 1orn.se is u.c ... ll ·nr, and they ride in perfect f.ttety. Thr ·e vc lds of .var, o about tw hundrcLl ton,, :111d carrying irom eigh to t velvc gun ach, bdi lcs two or three merchan t \'ends, h~ wit d boL nd wllilfi we remained h rc. Th · lit tle fort, with the ftHTOUJ<ding houf·s built on the r cky {horc, the v 11t:ls lying at an chor berore it, the rich woods, the diflant hill on the oppofitc fide of the. |
