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138 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA: 
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bateau by the officer at Fort Chippeway, to 
whom we carried letters, to convey us to Fort 
Erie. My companions embarked in it with 
our baggage, w hen the morning appointed for 
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our departure arrived; but desirous of taking 
one more look at the Falls, I staid behind, de¬ 
termining to follow them on foot in the course 
of the day; I accordingly walked down to the 
Falls from Fort Chippeway after breakfast* 
spent an hour or two there, returned to the 
fort, and having stopped a short time to rest 
myself after the fatigues of climbing the steeps 
about the Falls, I set out for Fort Erie, fifteen 
miles distant from Chippeway, accompanied 
Jby my faithful servant Edward, who has indeed 
been a treasure to me since I have been in 
* America. The dav was by no means favour- 
able for a pedestrian expedition; it w as in¬ 
tensely hot, and w r e had not proceeded far 
before we found the necessity of taking off our 
jackets, waistcoats, and cravats, and carrying 
them in a bundle on our backs. Several parties 
of Indians that I met going down the river in 
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The banks of Niagara River, between 
Chippeway and Fort Erie, are very.low, and 
covered, for the most part, with shrubs, under 
whose shade, upon the gravelly beach of the 
river, the weary traveller finds an agreeable 
resting place. For the first few miles from 
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