acres, for which he is to pay three hundred dollars; ten acres are cleared and in Oats. He has the advantage of Davis, in being surrounded by the Plains, which afford Hay and Pasturage.

The Holland Company have laid out a new Road from Ganson's to Buffaloe Creek, which passes to the South of Davis's Station, but falls in with the present Road at Ransom's. This new Route will make a saving of ten miles in forty-two.

Ransom informed me, that by an account which he has kept, no less than one hundred and fifty-five families, with their waggons, have passed his house this Summer, migrating from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Canada. Sixteen waggons passed in one day.

1 P. M. Rode through Oak Plains, but which presented very different features from those already passed. These Oaks, instead of being regularly intermixed, were arranged in screens, or belts, enclosing Plains of very irregular figures, some very long and narrow, others of an oval and round form; and from half a mile to two or three miles in diameter. On these open spaces there were very few Trees, and those very small; but the belts were formed of Trees closely crowded. These Belts were seldom more than from twenty to sixty or eighty yards in width. The only way I could

account for this appearance, was, that in the direction of these belts the soil was deeper than on the open spaces, where it scarcely covered the limestone rock.

Three hundred and fifty-two miles, the Eleven Miles Run. This stream passes over a smooth bed of limestone, and after heavy rain shews here a beautiful Cascade, having a picturesque fall of thirty feet. At present the Water escapes by crevices in the bed of the stream, before it reaches the fall, and re-appears at the distance of one hundred yards below the foot of the falls.

Leaving my horse to the care of my servant, I scrambled down to the foot of the falls, in hopes of finding those stones resembling agate, which Mr. Clay speaks of. I was disappointed in my search. My Route now lay through thick Woods of Beech, Maple, &c. to three hundred and fifty-five miles; then Oak Groves and Plains to three hundred and fifty-nine miles, where the solitary axe of a Backwood's-man was at work.

I now entered upon a new Road opened by the Holland Company, similar to that cut by Captain Williamson from the Genesee River to Ganson's. This Road is through very heavy timbered land. Following the Road three miles, the present extent of it, brought me to the Village of Buffaloe, on Buffaloe Creek. Pal

mer's Tavern three hundred and sixty-two miles.

From the Piazza of this Tavern I delightfully feasted my eyes on the expanse of Lake Erie; the British Fort on the opposite Shore; a gal-. lant Fleet riding at anchor; the winding and rich Banks of Buffaloe Creek; and the River Niagara taking its impetuous course from the Lake.

The Tavern was crowded with Indians. I observed two in very rich dresses of scarlet and green cloth. ::

The great body of the six Nations are settled about eight miles from hence at a place called Great Buffaloe, on the same Creek; at which place they reckon about fourteen hundred Seneca's; and four hundred more, composed of Cayugas, Onondagas, Tuscororas, and Delawares. As for the Mohawks, they removed under Colonel Brandt, to La Grande Riviere, in Upper Canada.

The Indians on Buffaloe Creek live remarkably well; they possess, not only productive Fields and Gardens, and plenty of Fish, but they receive annually amongst them eight thousand dollars, being the interest of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars arising from the sales of their Lands; principally those now possessed by the Holland Company.

Leaving Buffaloe, I followed the shore of Lake Erie to its outlet. The appearance and roaring of the waves were such a novelty to my Horses, that it was with difficulty they were made to approach sufficiently near, as to permit me to ride on the wet and firm sand. Three hundred and sixty-five miles, reached the ferryhouse.

The setting Sun gave a fine glow to the Landscape, richly illuminating the Lake, the River, the Fort and the Lake-Fleet moored in front of it, and which consisted of eight armed Schooners from seventy to ninety tons each.

Crossed the Niagara River in a Scow; it is five furlongs, or five-eights of a mile wide, and the Channel thirty feet in depth.

UPPER CANADA.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1800.

7 P. M. Wintermoth's Tavern; three hundred and sixty-six miles; having rode fifty miles this day.

At Sun-rise the Flies and Mosquitoes began to be very troublesome. At Ransom's the great Horse-Flies were so numerous and blood-thirsty that my Horses could not eat their food for them; yet Ransom informed me that there were very few compared to what had been during the more early part of the Summer, when they drove the Cattle from the Woods which he was obliged to protect with the smoke of large fires. They attack in silence, yet a Horse seems always sensible of their approach.

Met with one Whortleberry-bush. Saw a young Bear, which, being in great want of food,