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mariner on his passage through the lake. As the direct 

 course for Buffalo and the mouth of the Welland Canal 

 passes this point, a fleet of vessels may daily be seen wend- 

 ing their way to and fro, and from the Point both shores of 

 the lake may be seen on a clear morning. A person going 

 here must procure a good punter, under whose charge he 

 must place himself entirely ; great sport is to be had here, 

 equalled only on the St. Clair Flats. Ducks of all kinds and 

 geese are to be met with ; occasionally, too, may be seen a 

 wild swan. All around the Point, good snipe-shooting also 

 is to be had. For duck-shooting, from a boat, a No. 10 bear 

 gun is the most deadly ; in fact, as a general thing, it is the 

 best size to use always. Immediately west of Long Point 

 are seen for some distance The Sand Hills, a long range of 

 mounds barely clad with vegetation, whose sand drifts about 

 with every wind-storm like snow. The Grand River, which 

 discharges its waters into Lake Erie, runs through a country 

 scarcely to be equalled in salubrity and loveliness, the land 

 being rolled and well cleared, and presenting more the ap- 

 pearance of " merrie England" than any other section of the 

 Province. The lands lying at the mouth of the river are low 

 and unhealthy. Brantford, on this river, 82 miles from 

 Goderich, and 78 from Buffalo, on the Grand Trunk Railway, 

 takes its name from Brant, the Indian warrior, the renowned 

 Chief of the Six Nations, who; with his tribe, steadily sup- 

 ported the British Crown during the American war. In 

 " Ga'trude of Wyoming" he is alluded to in disparaging 

 terms as "the fiend, the monster Brant"; but some years 

 after that production, Campbell (the poet) was obliged to 

 apologize to Brant's son, who happened to visit London, as 

 it appeared, on satisfactory evidence, that his father was not 

 even present at the horrible desolation of Wyoming. Brant- 

 ford, from its foundries, potteries, and machine-shops, has 

 been called the " Birmingham of Canada." Between 

 Brantford and Caledonia lies a tract of land called the 



