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the main land, raised and covered with broken stone not unlike 

 the McAdam roads of the present day. The ruins of cellars, 

 many of which are excavated from the solid rock, line this street 

 on each side. The compact arrangement of these cellars and the 

 narrowness of the avenue, present a striking analogy to the anti- 

 quated villages in Canada, founded by the French, and leave 

 little doubt that their origin was the same. 



No vestige of this by-gone age, so thrilled upon my feelings and 

 excited my imagination, as the remnant of the sidewalk along 

 this street. It is formed of flagging similar to that now in use in 

 our cities. The stones are smooth and worn, and remain in the 

 position they were left by the generation who once thronged them 

 in the busy scenes of life. We were assured by the occupant of 

 the ground, that he has displaced many continuous rods of this 

 pavement, in the course of his agricultural operations, which 

 were in perfect preservation. 



To tread upon the pathway of a people whose name and line- 

 age is forgotten, whose historjr is extinct, and whose very era is 

 obscured, impresses the mind with a deeply saddeniag and so- 

 lemnizing influence. These and equally marked indications, 

 extend over a wide space about the fort and along the shores of 

 the lake. Impressive evidenceg exi>it, near the r^^idence o-f Ool. 

 Tremhl*?, of former extensive habitations. Two large cemeterift^, 

 one near the garriaon grounds and the other upon the last locality, 

 attest that tlie living, in numerous assemblies, once animated 

 these scenes. 



The worthy occupant of thr. termor, remaiked, without seeming 

 conscious that he was yielding to the dictate of a refined senti- 

 ment, that he had felt conj^trainod in pm (icular spots to arrest 

 the plow, because it so tearfully exposed the relics of the dead. 



Still another touching evidtnoo i*eraains that man, in an ad- 

 vanced stage of flociety, has left his foot-prints en these scenes, 

 to indicAto his former pre'en<'e. Asparagiis, othn l:ard7 plants 

 and feh rubs, u^sually cherished by the hnnd of human culiure, 

 still nourish, wild and uncared fjr, upon thcfo fields. The set- 

 tlers, who occu] led the territory after the revolution, found, in 



