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General McClure, burnt the town of Newark, an act for which 
he has been severely censured by his country. Since this occur¬ 
red, the village has never properly recovered, and its future in¬ 
crease will also be slow, especially as government is digging 
a canal to the west of Newark, which is to connect Lake Erie, 
and Lake Ontario, which will probably hereafter withdraw all the 
transitory commerce. Our time passed very agreeably in this 
town, particularly through the attention of the worthy Sir Pere¬ 
grine Maitland, who had come hither; the politeness of Major Cob, 
and the gallant officers of the seventy-sixth regiment, of which 
four companies were at Newark, as well as the delightful singing 
of Mrs. Grymes, who remained with her husband, while many 
others, with whom we had expected to sail, went away. 
We visited Fort Niagara, which is situated on the American 
shore, and which, in consequence of its white houses, and its 
waving flag, presents a very handsome appearance. The fort lies 
on a neck of land; it was erected by the French in the middle of 
the last century, and was shortly after taken by the British. 
After the peace of Versailles in 1783, it fell into the posses¬ 
sion of the United States, was retaken during the late war by 
the British, and at the peace of Ghent, was again obtained by the 
United States. We saw all that was to be seen, and found every 
thing clean and comfortable. I will only further remark on the 
present occasion, that the uniform of the United States’ Infantry 
is very simple, and consists of dark blue cloth, with one row of 
white buttons, blue lace collars and cuffs of the same, white 
cord, and leather caps. 
We also visited the village of the Tuscarora tribe of Indians, 
who reside within the limits of the United States, about three 
miles from Lewistown. The village consists of single houses, 
or wigwams, and is handsomely situated in a valley surrounded 
by forests. It contains a frame church, in which the service is 
performed by a methodist missionary, who also, during the win¬ 
ter, keeps school for their children. Most of the houses are sur¬ 
rounded by gardens and orchards; and the fields, in which they 
mostly cultivate Indian corn, appeared to be in a very good con¬ 
dition. We were conducted into the house of an Indian, about 
forty years of age, w T ho had been educated in one of the schools 
in New York, who speaks and writes English fluently. We 
found him in his bed suffering from an attack of rheumatism. Fie 
inquired after our native countries, and was pretty well acquaint¬ 
ed with their geography. We examined his library, and found 
that it consisted chiefly of methodist religious books, with a his¬ 
tory of the United States. He also had a collection of Indian 
implements of war, consisting of a club of hickory wood, a 
battle-axe of stone, bows and arrows, the points of which are 
