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After dinner I rode (eight miles) to Newark, Fort St. George. i808 

 The road excellent. The ride along the Niagara beautiful. The T - c - 

 country well settled. In fact it may be regarded as a continued 

 village from the ferry opposite the Black Rock for thirty-three 

 or thirty-four miles down to Newark. I stopped at Emery's, a 

 very good tavern. I wished to see Captain Lee who is collector 

 at the American port of Niagara; but no ferry is kept at either 

 place. I hired a boat for the purpose. ... I was sorry to 

 see the American town and fort of Niagara, so inferior in external 

 appearance, at least, to the British town of Newark and Fort 

 St. George. 



This being the extent of my proposed journey outward, I 

 returned (eight miles) to Banister's at Queenstown, where I slept. 

 By his persuasion, and it being also a new route, I determined to 

 go by Lewistown, (a shabby American settlement opposite 

 Queenstown.) I arose, therefore, at five o'clock, and crossed the 

 ferry to Lewistown. . . . 



1811 



MELISH, JOHN. Travels through the United States of America in jgn 

 the years 1806, 1807, and 1809, 1810, and 181 1 . . . with corrections Meliih 

 and improvements till 1815 . . . Phila. and Lond. : 1818. Pp. 503- 



509. 



The road (on the Canadian side) proceeds along the bank of 

 the river, and is elevated above the water seven or eight feet. 

 On the British side there are rich settlements, all the way down, 

 and I learned that the inhabitants are chiefly Germans, from 

 Pennsylvania. On the American side are very few settlements, 

 but they have commenced, and it is supposed they will go on 

 very rapidly. 



The account is accompanied by a queer stereotyped general plan of the 

 Falls of Niagara. 



1814 



Wright, Frances. Views of society and manners in America: in a 1814 

 series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years Wright 

 1818, 1819, and 1820. Lond.: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and 



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