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Show TRAVELS THROUGH UPPER CANADA: pofiponing the delivery when they come to afk for them, has firrnifi ... antly been nicknamed by them, G ner.1l Waba1w, that is Gcn<: ral To-morrow. T he country around Dctcoit is very much clc::u-cd, anJ fo liL -wii~; is that on the Britifh lick of the river for a confi.derablc way above th<.: town. The fettl mcnt extend nearly as far a Lal c lluron ; hut beyond the Riv r La Trenchl', which falL into Lal e St. Clair, they are fcatterecl very thinly along the fhores. The banks of the I' ivcr La Trenchv, r Thames, ; s it is now called, are in rcafi n()" very f~dl in popuh4 ion, as I b<.:forc mentioned, owing to the greai: cmi~.; ra.tion thithu· of people from the nei rhbourhood of Niagara, and of Detroit a1fo fincc it has been e acu.\ted by the Briti(h. We made an excur1ion,, one morning in our littl' boat ns far as Lake t. Clair, but mc:l with noth"ng, eith r amon:.:,!l: the i11hab"tants, or ·n the face of the country, . particularly dcferving of mention. The country round Detroit is uncommonly flat, amlin none of the rivers is there a fall fufficicnt to tum even a grifl: mill. The current of D troit n ivcr it(df i fl:rong r than that of :my other , and a fioaling mill w,l once invent d by a Frenchman, which was chained in the middle of that river, where it was thou_ght the :fl:ream would be fufiiciently fwi ft to turn the w::tter wheel : the building of it was attended wi1h confidcmble expcnc<.: to the inhabitants, but after it was fini(hed it by no means anfw red their expeCtations. They grind their corn at pre1i nt by wind mills, which I do n t remember to have il:cn in any other part of North America. The foil of the country bor lcring npon Detroit River is rich though light, and it produces good crops both of I nd i,ln corn and wheat. The dimate is much more healthy than that of tht.: country in the neigh;.. bourhood of Niagara River; int rmittent fever however are by no means uncommon tliCordcrs. The fummers arc inten(eiy hot, Fahrenheit's thcrmom t.::r often rifing above 1 oo; yet a winter fddom pafies over but what fno1.1 remains on the ground for t·JVo or three months. WhiHl. we runaincd at Detroit, we had to determine upon a point of fome moment to us travellers, namely, upon the route by which to retum b;tck towards the Atlantic. None of us felt much inclined to crofs the bke ngam ROUTE TO RETURN DOUDTFUT.. 35S ~gain to Port E ric, we at once t~1crefo re Jaiu afid, all thou rhts of re-turn~ mg that w:1y. Two ot her ron ·c: then nn fc ntcd tbemr.·Jvr·s r {j I . , 11.. " wr our con- Jce. ratlon '· the one. w•··l·s t (> pw· cr·c 1 by 1i llll1 Hr om Detroit, through th noi th wdl.crn tern or; of the.; Unit"d St.ltcs, as fa.r a the head waters of fame ~nco~. t 1c rivers which fall int the Ohio, ba.ving reached which, we might artcJ"wards have J rocccdccl upwards or downwards, a we found moll: e ·pcclil'nt; the other was to crofs by water to Prefqu' Ifl , on the f<n1th (j lc of Lake Eric, and then c oo down French reck and the Alleghany ~ iver~ as far as Pittfburgh on the Ohio, where being a -rived w~ fh~uld_ l1h .. w1fc have had the choice of dcfcc:nding the Ohio and M1 ff~f11pp 1, or of going on to Philadelphia, through Pennfylvani., accon. lu1g as we fhould find circumfl:ances moll: convenient. The fi1 (1: of thefc routes wa moil: fuited to our inclination, but we foon found that we mull: give over all thoughts of proceeding by it. The way to have procce~le~l would have been to fet out on horfeback, taking with us fuilic1ent provifions t la£1: for a journey thro uo·h a forc£1: of upwards of t"':'o hundred miles in length, and trufiing our horfes tq the food wh1ch they could pick up fo r themfc:lvcs amongfl: the buG1es. There was no poffibility of procuring horfes, however, for hir at Detroit or in the neighbourhood, and had we purc!Jn[t;d them, which cou ld not have been done but at a mofl: exorbitant price, we D10ulJ have fo und it a dif-1icult matter perhaps to have got 1 icl of them when we had ended our land journey, unlcfs inc.lced we cbofe to turn them adri(t in the woo I , which would not have bten p rfeClly fu itable to our fina 11c s. But indq cndcnt of this confidcration thcr WJS anoth...: r ob aclc in our way, and that wa the diOicul y of procurin3· nuidcs. The Indians were all pr paring to ft:t out on their hunting <: curfio.1:,, and ha i we even been able to have procur ~ d a J<'..rty of them for an d .:ort, tberc \ <>uld have been fame rd ·, we were told, f their de (· rtin_:; us b ·fore we 1·eachcJ our j ourney's cnJ. If they fj 11 in on thc:r journrv with a hllnting party that had h en very (u cefsful ; if th y came to ; place wh~re ~here was ~ real abun~bnce of gam ; or, in fhort, if we did not proccd Jllfl: nccordm r to then· (uJ y, impatient of every reftraint, and \rithont· .caring in the !tan: for the l1ire we had promifcJ them, th ·y would, pc1- z z 2 haps, |