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passage 45s. and boarded, on deck 13s. 6d. and find your 

 self; the same to Niagara and Queenston. Got up part 

 of the bay of Quinties, and called at the small village of 

 Bath to take in two passengers. This bay is fifty miles 

 long, and quite narrow, formed by a chain of islands along 

 one side, (the isle of Kanti is the largest), and the main 

 land on the other. It is beautifully varied and picturesque, 

 with gentle slopes to the water s edge, and pretty thickly 

 settled and cleared ; farm-houses every little way, strikingly 

 like the Delaware river in the State of that name. America 

 can boast of as noble bays, rivers, and lakes, as the world 

 produces. The weather of late has been fine and pleasant, 

 and generally so through the season ; very few unpleasant 

 hot days, and rather a cool summer. 



Sept. 12. Arrived in York. The schooner Michigan, 

 of 130 tons burthen, in which I came down Lake Erie, 

 was purchased for a trifling sum (after being stripped of 

 every thing valuable) by the tavern-keepers at the Falls, to 

 be sent adrift down them, to attract customers and amuse 

 the public. Saturday, the 8th, was the day appointed by 

 advertisement, when it was calculated about 8000 specta 

 tors were assembled on each side of the river to witness her 

 descent ; she was conducted to the head of the Rapids, and 

 then left to be carried down by the current, with a number 

 of wild animals on board, two bears, some foxes, and a buf- 

 faloe, cats, dogs, and geese, &c. As was expected, she went 

 to pieces on the shelves in the rapids, when some of the 

 animals were able to make the Canada shore, but the others 

 were killed and washed over the Falls; one goose only 

 remained alive of the latter; one of the two bears which 

 made the shore in safety I have seen on board the steam 

 boat ; it is a tame one, and is intended, it is said, as a pre 

 sent to his Majesty ; and the other, to the President of the 

 United States. 



Sept. 15. Left York on board the steam-boat for Nia 

 gara late last night, when early this morning we discovered 

 a fire a-head, which we all supposed to be the light-house of 

 Fort Niagara, but found it the large steam-boat Frontinac, 

 set adrift after being fired by some incendiary; she had 

 been laid in harbour, for the purpose of having her ma 

 chinery and iron taken out (which was in progress) for a 

 new one about to be built, this one being old and not sea 

 worthy. Our captain ordered a hawser to be fastened to 



