200 HORSE HIRING, 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Horse Hiring French Inn Negro Family Prairie Supplied 

 ivith Oats Mouth of the Thames Elephant Yorhshiremen 

 Want of Conveyance Old Settler Prairie Face of the Coun 

 try and Soil Notices of French Inhabitants and their Agricul 

 ture Huron Indians and their Agriculture Royalists and 

 their Agriculture Notices of Nature Detroit River Amherst- 

 burgh Sandwich Ferry Detroit. 



MY friend C sailed from Detroit for Buffalo on the 



12th September, and next day I commenced a tour into 

 the Western United States, from which I returned again to 

 Detroit, and spent a few days in Canada. 



With a view of keeping a connected account of Canada, I 

 shall take up my proceedings on the 18th October, on the 

 morning of which I crossed from Detroit to the British side 

 of the river, on which there is situated a good many houses 

 of different descriptions, with the view of obtaining a horse 

 to proceed to Chatham on the Thames, a distance of fifty 

 miles. Being refused by three different people who kept 

 horses for hire, on what appeared to me frivolous pretences, 

 and thinking they might be afraid of me leaving the horse, 

 and escaping to the States, I offered to deposit the value of 

 the horse with the owner before setting out on the journey. 

 To this arrangement one individual out of the three consented, 

 but demanded for the use of his horse the same hire as if he 

 himself and a pair of horses had accompanied me, as he could 

 not employ himself and the other in my absence. Under 

 these circumstances I returned to Detroit, where I readily 

 obtained a horse, which I entered at the customhouse before 

 setting out on my journey, and again on my return, or rather 

 paid the fees at once. I am not sure if it is absolutely neces- 



