CONTENTS, XI 



Father Le Moyne — Discovery of Salt Springs — Major Danforth— 

 Joshua Forman — James Geddes — The Erie Canal — Visit of La 

 Fayette — Syracuse University— Lecture at Shakespeare Hall . 148 



CHAPTER VIII. 



SYRACUSE TO ROCHESTER. 



Twmity-sixth Day — Grand Army Friends — General Sniper — Captain 

 Auer — Stopped by a Thunder-shower — An Unpleasant Predica- 

 ment — Twenty-Seventh Day — Jordan, New York — Lake Skaneat- 

 eles — Twenty-eighth Day — Photographed — Entertained at Port 

 Byron — Montezuma Swamp — Tiventy-ninth Day — Newark, New 

 York — Journey Continued Along the New York Central Rail- 

 way — Another Adventure with Paul — Thirtieth Day — Fairport — 

 Riding in the Cool of the Day 155 



CHAPTER IX. 



FOUR DAYS AT ROCHESTER. 



Rainstorm Anticipated — Friends of the Horse — Seven-Sealed Wonder 

 — Newspaper Controversy — Lecture at Corinthian Hall — Colonel 

 J. A. Reynolds — Pioneer History — Colonel Nathaniel Rochester — 

 William Fitzhugh — Charles Carroll— Rapid Growth of City — Sam 

 Patch — Genesee Falls — The Erie Canal — Mount Hope — Lake 

 Ontario — Fruit Nurseries . 165 



CHAPTER X. 



ROCHESTER TO BUFFALO. 



Thirty-fifth Day — Churchville — Cordiality of the People — Dinner 

 at Chili — Thirty-sixth Day — Bergen Corners — Byron Centre — Rev. 

 Edwin Allen — Thirty-seventh Day — Batavia — Meet a Comrade of 

 the Harris Light Cavalry — Thirty-eighth Day — "Croft's" — More 

 Trouble with Mosquitoes — Amusing Episode — Thirty-ninth Day 

 — Crittenden — Rural Reminiscences — Fortieth Day — Lancaster — ' 

 Lectured in Methodist Church — Captain Remington . . 176 



CHAPTER XL - 



THREE DAYS AT BUFFALO. 



"Queen City" of the Lakes — Arrival at the Tift House — Lecture 

 at St. James Hall — Major Farquhar — Aboriginal History — The 

 Fries — Iroquois — " Cats" — La Hontan— Lake Erie — Black Rock^ 

 War of 1812 — The Erie Canal — Buffalo River — Grosvenor Library 

 — Historical Society — Red Jacket — Forest Lawn — Predictions 

 for the Future • • • • 191 



