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dry, rich, and well watered with springs. In passing 

 through a new settlement in the woods, the traveller is wel 

 comed in every house ; but perhaps he may have occa 

 sionally to sleep on a straw bed, on the floor before the fire, 

 with a blanket or two over him, and in the same room the 

 whole of the family live and sleep, perhaps the only one in 

 the house ; for eating, he has bread, or cake, and butter 

 and potatoes, or &quot; must-and-milk,&quot; if for supper (ground 

 Indian corn boiled in water to the consistence of hasty pud 

 ding, then eaten with cold milk). It is the favourite dish, 

 and most people are fond of it, from its wholesomeness and 

 lightness, as a supper meal. Indian meal is also sometimes 

 made into cakes, which are called Johnny cakes, and per 

 haps some meat ; this is the living generally of the first 

 settling for a year or two, by those who bring little 

 other property into the woods bat their own hands, with 

 health and strength ; and with these they appear the most 

 independent and contented people in the world, as 



&quot; No contiguous palace rears its head, 



To shame the meanness of their humble shed ; 



At night returning, every labour sped, 



They sit them down the monarchs of the shed.&quot; 



At this time of the year the water in the river is mostly 

 low, and may be crossed at the rapids with high boots. 

 Pass down the river along the road leading from the head 

 of Lake Ontario, through Oxford, Westminster, and Dela 

 ware, to Sandwich, above the head of Lake Erie ; also over 

 the site and ruins of the late Moravian Indian village, and 

 got some apples from one of their small orchards ; some In 

 dian boys there, one of whom shewed his dexterity by 

 shooting single apples from the trees with his bow and 

 arrows. 



The Moravian village was destroyed in the war by the 

 American Indians, and has since been built on the opposite 

 side of the river. It is said Indians never build on the 

 spot where one has been destroyed, thinking it would be 

 opposing the Great Spirit, as he, they say, would not have 

 suffered it to have been destroyed if in the right place. 

 These Moravian Indians are civilized, live in houses, and 

 cultivate as much land and raise as much stock as the 

 white settlors. Speak pretty good English, and assume, 

 in part at least, the dress and manners of the white settlors, 



