DEPARTURE FROM CALEDONIA. 57 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Departure from Caledonia Batavia Description of an 

 American Hotel Lockport Visit to Falls of Niaga- 

 ra Lewiston Arrival at Toronto, Capital of Upper 

 Canada. 



Ax Caledonia I took leave of my kind friend, 

 Colonel Wordsworth, and having brought a 

 phaeton from Geneseo, I set out for Batavia, 

 distant seventeen miles, at six o'clock of the 

 afternoon. The road passes through a fine 

 corn country, all on limestone and enclosed 

 with substantial stone dikes, but more rugged 

 than any I had yet seen. 



About nine o'clock I arrived at Batavia, 

 and having determined next day to take the 

 phaeton on to Lockport, distant thirty-three 

 miles, put up for the night at a grand-looking 

 hotel, which I found greatly infested with 

 bugs. It is not, however, from the irritation 



