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It is well calculated for roads, and is sufficiently open for carriages 

 used in Europe, looking more like a royal forest tlian the unculti- 

 vated lands of nature. 



The loyal peasant, sighing after the government he lost by the late 

 revolution, travels from Pennsylvania in search of his former laws 

 and protection ; and having his expectations fulfilled by new marks 

 of favour from the Crown, in a grant of lands, he turns his plough 

 at once into the most fertile plains, and an abundant crop reminds 

 of his gratitude to God and to his King. [This paragraph is omitted 

 in the 2nd Edition,] 



Above Turkey Point, on the heights, is the townplot of Charlotte- 

 ville; and at the extremity of the point is the site of the projected 

 wharves and docks, with a good channel leading to it. Within the 

 point is an extensive marsh, where the settlers feed gi-eat numbers of 

 cattle, which are driven to different parts of the Province for con- 

 sumption. Long Point, now called the North Foreland [the five 

 words preceding are omitted in 2nd Edition], is a peninsula pro- 

 jecting from the south-west angle of the township of Walsingham 

 eastward into the lake, about twenty miles, making an arm which 

 forms a very large bay. "Where the peninsula joins to the main, there 

 is a creek, which, when the waters are high, is of sufficient depth for 

 boats to pass from within the bay, over the neck into the lake; and 

 when the waters are low, the distance is so short that the batteaux are 

 easily hauled over. Pottohawk Point is a small projection from 

 Long Point, within and connected nearly with Turkey Point by a 

 chain of rushy islands, running across the uppermost part of the bay. 



Erom Charlotteville there is a good road through the country to 

 the Mohawk village on the Grand River. 



Proceeding westward from Long Point, you pass Kettle Creek and 

 Eiver Barbut, about twenty-five miles of coast, where the banks of 

 the lake are high, until you arrive at Landguard, formerly called 

 Point aux Pins ; from hence there is a short communication by land 

 to Chatham, at the Porks of the River Thames. 



Leaving Landguard you arrive at Point Pele, or the South Fore- 

 land, which makes a great projection into the lake; and having 

 doubled the point, you enter the settlements made by the loyalists in 

 the townships of Mersea, Gosfield, and Colchester; and having coh- 

 tinued westward through those townships, you arrive at Maiden, 

 situated at the mouth of the strait, or River Detroit. 



