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The settlement consists of a store-house on the beach, and a few 

 neat whitewashed cottages along the top of the high bank, with their 

 fronts overrun with vines. A little way back from the bluff was a neat 

 Gothic church, of wood, not quite finished ; service was held in a 

 small building bejond. The rock, which is Trenton limestone, and 

 full of fossils, crops out everywhere in nearly horizontal strata. 



Soon after leaving this place we entered the Georgian Bay, so 

 called, the Captain says, ever since he has known it, though one sees 

 it named Lake Manitoulin, or Manitoulin Bay, on some maps. He 

 commanded the first steamboat that plied between Penetanguishene 

 and the Sault. The trip occupied four or five days ; they crept ' 

 along the northern shore, stopping to cut wood where they wanted it, 

 and lying by at night. 



High land was now in sight to the northward ; mountains of about 

 twelve hundred feet elevation. The water is very deep, but from 

 the number of islands and rocks, the navigation is dangerous, and it 

 is necessary to anchor in case of fog. Sometimes no bottom can be 

 had close to shore, and then they have to make fast to trees. Nor- 

 thern Lights this evening. 



Aug. 21si. — We arrived at Penetanguishene early in the fore- 

 noon, and remained there a short time to wood, &c. The wounded 

 men were carried on mattresses to the Military Hospital. Near the 

 entrance was a war steamer, moored at one of the Avharves. This 

 vessel, in accordance with treaty, carries but one gun. The village 

 is situated at the bottom of a deep narrow bay ; the shores on the 

 right going in are low and covered witli» wood ; on the left, the ground 

 rising and cleared for cultivation. The sight of fences and farm- 

 houses here was more home-like than anything we had seen for some 

 time. The place seems to be a thriving one, and it is thought the 

 road from the lake to Toronto will ultimately commence here. The 

 upper part of the bay, however, near the town, seems to be too shal- 

 low to favor navigation. Judging from a slip of paper offering a 

 reward for certain Indian curiosities, which was stuck up in one of 

 the shops, there would seem to be some one here who has the good 

 sense to look after the remains of the aboriginal inhabitants. 



The distance to Sturgeon Bay, where we were to leave the 

 boat, is not great, but from the stop at Penetanguishene, and the 



