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under culture ; in many parts they are naturally 

 but scantily timbered, and almost unencum- 

 bered with underwood, circumstances mate- 

 rially contributing to this increase. Along the 

 shore there are several convenient harbours for 

 suiall craft, and two or three for the armed 

 vessels that have occasionally navigated it. 

 Long Point, or the North Foreland, is a narrow 

 slip of land, or rather a sandy beach, projecting 

 eastward from the township of Walsingham, 

 little less than twenty miles, and not greatly 

 exceeding one hundred and eighty yards in 

 breadth ; it forms the deep nook called Long 

 Point Bay, at the head of which there is a port- 

 age across the neck of land to the lake, that 

 from its lowness is sometimes so much over- 

 flowed as to be passable for boats. At Turkey 

 Point, projecting from the main land within 

 the foreland, a spot has been surveyed and plan- 

 ned out for a dock-yard. From this spot to 

 Amherstburgh nothing intervenes to break the 

 uniformity of the coast : this town is situated 

 about three miles up the eastern side of Detroit 

 River, and contains about one hundred and 

 fifty houses, a church, court-house, gaol, &c. 

 It was a frontier post and naval depot, but the 

 military works, dock-yard, and stores, were de- 

 stroyed by the English in 1813, when they were 

 forced to evacuate it by an overwhelming 

 American force : there is a very safe and con*^ 



