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earth, and sold to the trappers. A drop or two of this 

 precious aroma is put on or near the steel-traps after they 

 are set, and the strange and extraordinary odor is said to 

 decoy other animals to the spot. Our landlord himself 

 being furnished with a bottle of this essence of skunk, 

 and his traps profusely saturated with the same, produced 

 the effect above mentioned. 



Note 48— Page 67. 



Fort Oswego. — This post was finally abandoned on 

 the 28th of October, 1804, about a week before our visit 

 there. 



Note 49 — Page 69. 



Queenstown. — This place lies on the Canada sida of 

 the Niagara river, seven miles below the falls. 



Note 50— Page 69. 



Haw In the east the coming tempest lour, &c. 



These storms are very frequent on this lake ; and the 

 want of sufficient sea-room is also dangerous. A few 

 days previous to our arrival at Oswego, a British packet 

 called the Speedy, with the judge advocate on board, the 

 judges, witnesses, and an Indian prisoner, and others, to 

 the amount of twenty or thirty persons, foundered in a 



