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vent vexatious applications. The house in which the Colonel 

 lives is situated on the banks of the lake, upwards of 100 

 feet high, and commands a fine view of the banks and shore 

 of Lake Erie for twenty miles down, and also the Colonel s 

 Creek winding through the &quot; flats &quot; below. The Colonel 

 was not at home when we arrived, but soon returned, 

 and after procuring a list of some vacant lots of land thirty 

 miles above, we proceeded forward from Port Talbot. It 

 may not be unnecessary to inform my readers, that port, 

 and shipping, and the name of a township, and a town, 

 de facto , are not necessarily concomitants in America. We 

 stopped in Ireland at night, five miles from the Colonel s, 

 with a farmer who came from Pensylvania, a thriving and 

 comparatively a forehanded one. After leaving &quot; Ireland,&quot; as 

 it is called, we passed through three miles of woods into the 

 &quot; Scotch settlement,&quot; the settlers of which having only fifty 

 acres of land each, which was given by the Colonel for their 

 clearing- out the street in front of their lots. This street, or 

 road, runs through his two townships, Dunwich and Aid- 

 borough, onward to the head of Lake Erie. The Scotch 

 settlers are highlanders, and very hospitable. 



July 31. Arrived at Clear Creek, a fine little stream 

 of spring- water, arising about two miles from the lake, and 

 one from the street, in the township of Orford. Stayed 

 the night with an Englishman from Northumberland, who 

 has been here six or seven years. He suffered considerable 

 privations at first, commencing on his lot at the begin 

 ning of the winter ; he had first to build a house, and then 

 work out for provisions for the family. He has since built 

 himself another house and barn, dug a well and a cellar, 

 planted an orchard, and cleared forty or fifty acres of land, 

 and is now comfortably situated and thriving, although hav 

 ing only 30s. or 40s. left on his first arrival. 



Aug. 2. Accompanied an Irishman and sons with a con 

 ductor into the &quot; Bush&quot; to look at some lots of land, part 

 of which we found both rich and dry, and have taken 

 a note of their numbers. The lots are laid out in parallelo 

 grams, or long squares, of 100 or 200 acres each, having 

 an end abutting to a road or street, with small posts bearing 

 their numbers at the corners. I next proceeded towards 

 the townships of Howard and Harwich, to view some va 

 cant lots of land, and in my way was hospitably entertained 

 by a new settler, gratuitously, although he was indigent ; 



