Niagara Falls 



1808 10 To Goss's, to feed: a poor place. Richardson's, a mile 



T - c - further, seems somewhat better. 



3 Carr's saw-mill on Murder Creek. The stone all chert. 

 The limestone appears to decrease in quantity. 



5 To Van Deewinder's, a frame house, the only place 

 between Batavia and Buffaloe where you can sleep, and bad 

 enough it is. The road from Batavia hither is very full of stumps 

 and swamp holes; three-fourths of it consists of log causeways. 

 There is a log cabin about every mile or two. It is much the 

 worst road I have met with from the state line hither : it is much 

 the same as the road from Lycoming Creek past the block house 

 and Peters's Camp to Tyoga, only the Holland company have 

 taken somewhat more pains than the state of Pennsylvania. 



14 Sunday, May fourteenth, to Ransom's for breakfast; 

 fried veal : the only fresh meat, except some beef at Canadarque, 

 that I have seen since I left Williamsport. Nor has my horse 

 had hay more than once since I left Reynolds's, the first stage 

 from Williamsport. They attribute the want of it to a winter 

 unusually protracted. 



8 To Landen's at Buffaloe, a village of about sixteen houses 

 near the outlet of Lake Erie on the lake. From Van Deewinder's 

 here nothing but chert along the road, but Landen says they 

 have plenty of limestone upon the hills about three miles off. 

 Landen's is but an indifferent tavern, though the best in the place. 

 Buffaloe appears very well situated for business with Erie, 

 Detroit and the western part of upper Canada, but there are, as 

 yet, no symptoms of industry. Landen tells me that the whole 

 road round the lake to the town of Erie in Pennsylvania, ninety 

 miles off, is well settled except about nine miles. I asked him 

 where was the market for the produce of that part of the 

 country? he replied, New Orleans, by the Chatangue Lake, there 

 being but nine miles of land carriage from Lake Erie to New 

 Orleans, to wit, the Chatangue portage, which is true. But, in my 

 opinion, the market will be Montreal, for there are not more 

 than nine miles portage from Lake Erie to Montreal, to wit, at 



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