Niagara Falls 



1808 county town of Ontario. The agriculture of the neighborhood 

 T - c - is probably improving, for I observed in one of the newspapers 



(there are two published here) forty halfblooded Merino lambs 

 to be disposed of at Palmyra by William Howe Cuyler. The 

 house and lot of forty acres in this town formerly owned by 

 Mr. T. Morris, sold to the present occupant, Mr. Clarke, a 

 tanner, for seven thousand dollars. In the time of Mr. Morris 

 it was, in good truth, a hospitable mansion; and then, the only 

 house in the place of genteel appearance. At present there are 

 twenty as good. 



10 Friday, twelfth, to Eccleston's. 

 2 To Hall's; the more frequented of the two. 



1 2 To the widow Berry's, about half a mile on this side the 

 Genesee river. This is in Hartford. From Canadarque hither, 

 you pass through Bloomfield and Charlestown townships. It is 

 one village all the way from Canadarque; at least you are 

 scarcely ever out of sight of a house. In Bloomfield I saw two 

 brick houses, one brick store, and one brick meeting house. My 

 memory does not serve me to recollect any other from Williams- 

 port hither, but log and frame buildings. In Pennsylvania, on 

 this route, you see log houses ; in Newyork state, frames. . . . 

 From Canandaigua hither the stone on the road is round siliceous 

 pebble, siliceous grit, chert, chert-flint, flint occasionally by itself, 

 and sometimes imbedded in limestone, chert intermixed with lime- 

 stone, and here and there limestone, in proportion of perhaps 

 one-fourth of the whole number of stones. For a mile before 

 you come to the Genesee river, the road is made chiefly of 

 gravel formed of compact siliceous stones. 



4 Across the Genesee river. Passed the Indian village of 

 Canewagas. This tribe has reserved about two miles square on 

 the river. It began to rain, and I was compelled to put up for 

 the night at a tolerable tavern kept by a major Smith. 



12 Saturday, May thirteenth, to Marvin's; tolerable house. 

 Very poor cherty land for five miles from Smith's. 



8 To Keys or Kyes at Batavia. Excellent land and well 



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