1807-8 



Schultz 



Niagara Falls 



condition that they should build store-houses at Lewis Town, Fort 

 Schlosser and Black Rock, on Lake Erie, which they have done. 

 The portage for salt and other articles was formerly principally 

 upon the British side; but, since the present arrangement, the 

 whole of the portage is on the American side. Add to this, that 

 there is now much greater security in transporting goods than 

 formerly, as this company are bound not only to have all perish- 

 able articles housed and stored, but are even answerable for the 

 safe delivery of whatever is committed to their care. The portage 

 is thirty-seven and a half cents a barrel to Fort Schlosser, and 

 merchandise at the rate of twenty-five cents per hundred. The 

 distance is seven miles. 



1808 

 T. C. 



1808 



T. C. A ride to Niagara. (The portfolio, July, Aug., Sept. 1810.) 

 This excellent account of a trip from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to 

 Niagara in the year 1 809 is also bound as a pamphlet in the Marshall 

 Collection of the Buffalo Historical Society. It contains much valuable 

 information not only of the conditions of travel for that time but also 

 accurate knowledge of the conditions of the country and the towns through 

 which the author passed. It also contains a good map showing the roads 

 and the settlements. 



Mr. Oldschool, 



Finding myself at Williamsport, in Lycoming county, about 

 the beginning of May, 1809, and having a month to spare, I 

 determined to take a ride to the Falls of Niagara. I had visited 

 the Genesee country and the Falls of Genesee in the year 1 796, 

 but notwithstanding the four years' exertions of captain William- 

 son, the Genesee was at that time almost a wilderness, and I was 

 not tempted to go further westward than the mouth of the river. 

 It is now a very populous and well cultivated country, consider- 

 ing the short period of its settlement, and every year lessens the 

 inconveniences attending so interesting a jaunt. Travellers, who, 

 like myself, ride post through a country, have seldom much accu- 

 rate information to give; but as I think the tour will yearly 

 become more fashionable, because it deserves to become so, I send 



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