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was to have been built on the river formerly called La 
Trenche, but now denominated the Thames, that runs into 
-_ St. Clair. fe 
r 1725, but was taken by the Englifh, under fir William 
Le in 1759, and furrendered to the United States, 
according to the treaty of 1796, by the Britith, The 
town of Niagara ftands on the raenee of the weftern bank of 
the river, about so miles from the water’s edge, and contains 
about 70 houfes, a court-houfe, gaol, and a building in- 
tended the secant of the legiflative bodies. The 
houfes, with few exceptions, are built of wood; thofe next 
the lake are rather poor, but at the upper end of the town 
are feveral excellent ‘buildings, seer oe y the principal 
officers of government., Few places in North America have 
rifen more rapidly than Niagara, a a aes acqui ring the ad- 
dition of almoft all its Sener in five years, it is ftill enlarging 
in fize, on account partly of the increafe of the back coun- 
try trade along the ihorvet of the lakes, = = of the fur- 
prifing emigraticns of people from the ftat The quantity 
of furs collected at Niagara i is confiderable, and the neigh- 
bourhocd being populous, it is of courfe a place of no {mall 
trade; but the town in which this trade is carried on, being 
on the Britith fide of the line, the few merchants that lived 
within the limits of the fort immediately crofled over to the 
other fide, as foon as it was rumoured that the fort was to be 
given up. the margin of Niagara river, about three- 
quarters of a mile from the town, ftands a 
harf are ex- 
tenfive ftores belonging to the crown, and alfo to private 
perfons. 
The fort of Niagara ftands immediately at the mouth of 
the river, on a point of land, one fide of which is wath 
by the river, and the other by the lake. Towards the 
water it is ftockaded; and behind Ne ftockade, on the river 
fide, a large mound oe earth rifes up, at which 
are bates for guns; on the land.fide it is red by 
feveral batteries and redoubts, and by parallel lines of 
fafcines. At the gates, and in rent parts, there 
are ftrong blockhoufes ; and facing the lake, within the 
itockade, ftands a large fortified ftone houfe. The fort and 
outworks occupy about five a : ground; anda gar- 
e 
ce, wo en r o defend it properly. 
federal garrifon, however, confits only of 50 men. 
its fituation the tow nds a fine view 
abl health 
only the town o 
ckly 
middle of. July, and terminates about the wee 
tember, as foon as the nights become cls 
“Welds Travels, 
mon diforders are we fevers. 
vol, ti at. 43° 79° 
NIAGAR ere a river of Canade on iffues from the 
eaftern extremity 0 e Erie, and = ter a sein of 36 
as difcharges itfelf i into lake Onta ver forms 
part of the boundary between the United States nd Upper 
NIC 
Canada. For the firft few miles from lake Erie, the breadth 
oceed downward, the river widens; no 
he (hares, or : the chan inet, 
connaes very ftro 
navigable with Gay for ia eaae as far as fort Chippewas, 
about three miles above the falls. For an account of thefe 
falls, we refer to the article CATARA 
NIAGAW, a town of Bae 12 > miles S.S.W. of 
Noony. 
NIAGEE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar; 48 miles 
S.W. of Patna. 
NIAGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of the 
Rutturpour; 27 miles N.W. of Ruttunpour.—Alfo, a 
town of rae 1; - ruled N.W. of Rogonatpour. N, lat. 
23° mo E. lon 
NIAK, a town of New York, on the right bank of the 
Hudfon ; 23 thiles N. of New York. —Alfo, an ifland on the 
5. W. coatt of Eaft Greenland. N. lat. 59°45! W. long. 
43° 30! 
NIAKDELSKOI, a town of Ruff in the govern- 
ment of Archangel ; 62 miles N.N.W. of Kola. 
NIALEL, in Botany, Rheede Pe Malab. v 
t. 16, a fine loft evergreen tree, whofe fruit, not un- 
like a bunch of grapes, is faid by Rheede to be efteemed a 
delicacy. Linnzus has not referred it to any known plant. 
Juffieu gueffes it to be really a {pecies of Vitis. 
IALMA, in ee gl a town of Thibet ; 76 miles 
N. of Catmandu. N. lat. 29° 23’. E. long. 85° 27! 
NIANA, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad; eight 
miles W. of Beder 
NIAPAGUR, a town of Bengal; 25 miles N. of Bog- 
ce 
lipour. 
NIAPON, a town of Africa, in Whidah; 10 miles E. 
of Sabi 
NIARAN Kentcuian, amountain of Thibet. N. lat. 
28° 25’. E. long. 8 
44! 
NIAS, a ef idaa’ near the W. coalt of the a 
Sumatra, celebrated for the beauty of its females, who 
purchafed as flaves by the Dutch and Portuguefe refiding 
in Batavia, and other places. N. lat. 1°. E. lon 
BAD, or Niczasan, a town of Perf, | in the 
province of pain with a ree on the Cafpian fea ; 
40 miles S, of Derben 
d to a ba 
NO, in Coe a town of the “uy as Pia. 
cenza; 16 miles S. acenza. 
U, a town he Tapan in the ifland of Niphon; 165 
miles N.W. of Je 
NICEA, in an Geography, a sai of Bithynia, 
upon the lake Afcanius, according to Strabo, who gave it 
the title of “ primaria Bit rd ae - his time it was 
of a fquare figure, and a ftadia i ga 
called 
It was encore with a = an olga: It w; 
quipotie, 
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