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like passing fi-om a half lighted room, into ail 

 apartment blazing with lamps. 



After this, you continue your coarse throngtt 

 a country generally unsettled, until you arrive at 

 Syracuse, opposite to Salina, and 61 miles from 

 Utica, where Judge Forman, a gentleman of 

 great intelligence and activity, is erecting a town. 

 Tl:e rciiion west to Montezuma is of tlie same 

 character. When you pass Geddesburgh, the 

 Onondaga lake stretches out its waters to the 

 liortb, and as it were under your feet; a more 

 beautlfal prospect my eyes never beheld. In this 

 region mighty deeds of valor have been perform- 

 ed. Here the great congress, parliament, or 

 Vvittenagr^mote, of the Iroquois, or Six Nations 

 assembled \o deliberate on the concerns of the 

 federal repubiVc, Here the Jesuits established 

 themselves, and encountered death and ail its ter- 

 rcrs to establish the dowiuion of the cross. But 

 I am called olf to \^itness a singular sight— a 

 great bald eagle chasing an os[,i;ey over the Sene- 

 ca lake — a great fish lalls from the mouth of tiic 

 latter, and the imperial bird darts at tlie fallin-^ 

 fish with the rapidity of ligi^tning. and gvasps it 

 in his talons. 



