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venient harbour, with good anchorage, in 3f 

 fathoms. Fourteen miles beyond Amherst^ 

 burgh, pursuing the course of the river, stands 

 the town of Sandwich, containing about one 

 hundred houses, a church, distinguished by the 

 appellation of the Huron church, a court- 

 house, and gaol: there are some wharfs along 

 the river side, where vessels may be safely laid 

 up during the winter. From Sandwich to Lake 

 Ste. Claire the bank of the river is every where 

 in a high state of culture, with houses thickly 

 placed all along the road; good gardens, and 

 almost invariably an orchard, are attached to 

 them : no part of the province can rival this in 

 luxuriance of soil or picturesque beauty, nor 

 can any one be easily conceived more agreeable 

 than it is in the spring of the year. Beyond 

 this valuable tract there is no cultivated land, 

 except in small quantities round the different 

 stations of the North- West Company in the in- 

 terior. In reviewing the American frontier op- 

 posed to Upper Canada, it is found to extend 

 from the village of St. Regis, on the parallel of 

 the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, along 

 the south bank of the St. Lawrence and the 

 Great Lakes, up to the north-west angle of the 

 Lake of the Woods, a distance of about 1570 

 miles : on this line many military stations and ; 

 trading posts are established. Upwards of six 

 hundred miles of it are extremely well cultivated. 



