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lage of St. David^s, very pleasantly situated on 

 a stream called the Four-mile Creek, and sur- 

 rounded by land in a very high state of cultiva- 

 tion : previous to feeling the severities of Ame- 

 rican warfare it contained forty houses, but 

 now it is much short of that number. Between 

 Queenstown and Fort Erie there is only the 

 village of Chippewa, containing a few houses^ 

 many storehouses, and two or three taverns ; it 

 is on the eastern bank of the River Welland, 

 and near it a small military post called Fort 

 Chippewa. Bordering the road throughout the 

 whole distance, at short intervals, there are 

 houses and farms in a very flourishing state, 

 many of them beautifully and romantically 

 situated on the bank of the river, and surrounded 

 by some of the most picturesque scenery in na- 

 ture : between Newark and Chippewa a stage 

 coach travels regularly. Fort Erie stands on a 

 little rising ground close to the entrance into the 

 Niagara River from the Lake Erie. During the 

 war it was considerably strengthened and con- 

 nected by a chain of field-works with a strong 

 battery on Snake Hill, about eleven hundred 

 yards distant. The northern shore of Lake 

 Erie is not remarkable for any strong traits 

 of nature ; all the townships are watered both 

 by large and small streams in abundance; 

 they increase very fast in the number of their 

 settlements and the quantity of land brought 



