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of Niagara River; intermittent fevers however 
are by no means uncommon disorders. The 
summers are intensively hot, Fahrenheit’s ther¬ 
mometer often rising above 100; yet a winter 
seldom passes over but what snow remains on 
the ground for two or three months. 
Whilst we remained at Detroit,, we had to 
determine upon a point of some moment to ns 
travellers, namely, upon the route by which to 
return back towards the Atlantic. None of us 
felt much inclined to cross the lake again to 
Fort Erie, we at once therefore laid aside all 
thoughts of returning that way. Two other 
routes then presented themselves for our con¬ 
sideration ; the one was to proceed by land 
from Detroit, through the north western ter¬ 
ritory of the United States, as far as the head 
waters of some one of the rivers which fall 
into the Ohio, having reached which, we might 
afterwards have proceeded upwards or down¬ 
wards, as we found most expedient-: the other 
was to cross by water to PresquTsle, on the 
south side of Lake Erie, and thence go down 
French Creek and the Alleghany River, as far 
as Pittsburgh on the Ohio, where being ar¬ 
rived we should likewise have had the choice 
of descending the Ohio and Mississippi, or of 
going on to Philadelphia, through Pennsyl¬ 
vania, according as we should find circum¬ 
stances most convenient. The 'first of these 
