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. 



AT 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 



