Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826 - 313 Seiten Visit to the falls is a diary of his journey from New York city to Albany, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Ont., Montreal, and Quebec. |
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acres Albany banks bateaux Bath beautiful breakfast Buffaloe Creek bushels calash Canada Canadarqua canoe Capt Captain Frende Captain Williamson Cayuga cents Channel Chippawa Church and Village crossed Cuthbert Cuyler Dined distance Ditto dollars eight Engagés excellent Falls of Niagara feet fish five foot Fort Montgomery Fort Schuyler forty four miles Genesee River Geneva Goat Island half horses Hotel Hudson Indian JULY Kingston Lake Erie Lake Ontario Lawrence Maple Mills Mohawk Montreal Morris Morse mountain navigable Niagara River night obliged Oneida outlet P. M. Landed P. M. Passed passage pleasant Quebec Queenstown Rapids Re-embarked road Salt Schlusser Seneca Lake Seneca River Settlement shore side situation six miles Sloop Snake Spring Sugar Maple Tavern thirty thousand three hundred three miles took town trees twelve miles twenty Upper Upper Canada Utica waggon Wheat wind wood yards York
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Seite 138 - This wonderful downfall is compounded of two great cross-streams of water, and two falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this vast height, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder; for when the wind blows from off the south, their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen leagues off.
Seite 284 - This line of road having been established by law, not less than fifty families settled on it in the space of four months after it was opened.
Seite 88 - Williamson is, that no buildings shall be erected on the east side of the street, that the view of the lake may be kept open. Those who purchase a lot have also the option of purchasing such land as lays between their lot and the lake — a convenience and advantage which I suppose few will forego — the quantity not being great, and consisting principally of the declivity of the bank, which, for the most part, is not so steep as to unfit it for pasturage or gardens.
Seite 88 - Williamson has two rooms in this hotel appropriated to himself; and as he resides here the greater part of the year, he takes care that Powell does justice to the establishment and to his guests. From this cause it is, that, as it respects provisions, liquors, beds, and stabling, there are few inns in America equal to the hotel at Geneva. That part of the town where the hotel is situated is intended for a public square. At Mile-Point, a mile south of the hotel...
Seite 87 - Williamson, struck with the peculiar beauty of the elevated plain which crowns the high bank of the lake, and the many advantages which it possessed as a site for a town, began here to lay out his building. lots parallel with and facing the lake.
Seite 171 - Both for their valour famous thro' the world. Yet will they not unite their kindred arms, And, if they must have war, wage distant war, But with each other fight in cruel conflict. Gallant in strife, and noble in their ire, The battle is their pastime. They go forth Gay...
Seite 145 - J. Steadman, of all the land which he galloped over in his 1800 flight. This tract, so granted, begins at Bloody-bridge, the scene " * of action, and terminates at Fort Schlusser; its extent in depth from the River is such as to make the whole amount to four thousand nine hundred and eighty-six acres. The reason they gave for this grant was, that they considered his escape as miraculous, and that this gift was an atonement to him and the Great Spirit who protected him, for their guilt in having attempted...
Seite 173 - A boat that had sailed from York, the present seat of Government, unexpectedly returned again; the people on board relating, with great terror, their having seen a great Snake, at least thirty feet long, which, from its rearing its head and fore-part of its body out of the water, they conjectured meant to attack them/ All this they deposed on oath before a Magistrate.
Seite 139 - tis seven or eight hundred feet high, and half a League broad. Towards the middle of it we descry an Island that leans towards the Precipice, as if it were ready to fall.
Seite 290 - New-Hartford, west of which you will find the country settled for about twelve miles; but after that, for sixty-five miles, to Niagara River, the country still remains a wilderness. This road was used so much last year by people on business, or by those whom curiosity had led to visit the Falls of Niagara, that a station was fixed at the Big Plains to shelter travellers.