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pleasure boat, which one of the traders obli¬ 
gingly lent to us. The river between the two 
places varies in breadth from two miles to half 
a mile. The banks are mostly very low, and 
in some places large marshes extend along* the 
• shores, and far up into the country. The shores 
are adorned with rich timber of various kinds, 
and bordering upon the marshes, where the 
trees have full scope to extend their branches, 
the woodland scenery is very fine. Amidst the 
marshes, the river takes some very considerable 
bends, and it is diversified at the same time 
with several large islands, which occasion a 
great diversity of prospect. 
•Beyond Malden no houses are to be seen on 
either side of the river, except indeed the few 
miserable little huts in the Indian villages, until 
you come within four miles or thereabouts of 
Detroit. Here the settlements are very nume¬ 
rous on both sides, but particularly on thafibe- 
longing to the British. The country abounds 
with peach, apple, and cherry orchards, the 
richest I ever beheld; in many of them the 
trees, loaded with large apples of various dyes, 
appeared bent down into the very water. They 
have many different sorts of excellent apples 
in this part of the country, but there is one far 
superior to all the rest, and which is held in 
great estimation, called the pomrae caille. I 
do not recollect to have seen it in any other 
part of the world, though doubtless it is not 
