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with Messrs. Say, Keating, Colhoun, and Seymour, on 

 board the revenue cutter, the Dallas, which carried them 

 as far as Detroit. On this voyage across Lake Huron and 

 St. Clair, they were three days, during which they re- 

 ceived the kindest atttentions from the commander of the 

 cutter, Captain Knapp, who very politely gave up to them 

 the use of his cabin. After remaining three days at Detroit 

 they proceeded to buffalo, on board of the steam boat that 

 plies upon Lake Erie. They then visited Niagara, and tra- 

 velled by land to Rochester, where they struck the Erie 

 canal ; they proceeded down the canal to Albany, a dis- 

 tance of two hundred and fifty eight miles. On the 26th 

 of October they reached Philadelphia, having been absent 

 about six months, during which time they travelled over 

 upwards of four thousand five hundred miles, the whole 

 party being blessed with health, meeting with no accident 

 of any account, and undergoing hardships and privations, 

 far less considerable than those which they had expected 

 to undergo, and which have tried the perseverance and 

 courage of other explorers. 



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