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New York, as well as almost every part of the 

 frontier. At Black Rock and Buffalo Creek^ 

 at the eastern extremity of Lake Erie, were 

 military posts, with a few houses and settle*? 

 ments around them^ but they were destroyed 

 at the same time and for the same reason as 

 Lewistown ; since that time, however, the Ame- 

 ricans have been indefatigable in restoring the 

 forts. From Buffalo up to Detroit, near Lake 

 Ste* Claire, the shore of Lake Erie is generally 

 low, except near the portage of Chataughque, 

 where for a short distance it is rocky and lofty t 

 and betweenClevelandand the Reneshoua River, 

 where the cliffs rise almost perpendicular nearly 

 twenty yards above the waters level, and so 

 continue until they approach almost close to the 

 River Huron. Along this side of the lake there 

 are but few points meriting particular notice : 

 the entrance of Cataragus Creek affords a good 

 harbour for boats, from whence there is a road 

 to the interior. Presqu'ile harbour is situated 

 opposite to the North Foreland, or Long Point, 

 and formed by a sandy beach or narrow penin- 

 sula stretching a great distance, and covering it 

 from the lake ; in form it bears so strong a re-^ 

 semblance to York harbour on Lake Ontario, 

 that the same description would apply almost 

 equally well to both places, with the differenccy 

 that the latter opens to the south-west and the 



