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. . Frankthe a” ds : RE. en er EXTRACTS FS0% -AN -oftcinan gota svg ears D IBD AL-ATTACHED To FHRF eid pe FOPPRANEE -OBRATBEARBAKE, wi Tiber ee See ene MAR tt L » re 'Oba ai aay. = ¥ : tem . citinens, eapent.n week ‘very . hich; we left Note York in a steam-boat, and proceeded up toe rhe eee to Albany, by the way at West mathe to visit the Military Academy establi there on'a large West’ Point is associated with unpleasant recollections.to an Englishman, as L Wing. the iton of the American army, when the unfortunate but valiant Major Andre was taken in tarrying. on his negociativns with General Anold, The Hudson is a magnificent river, and the’ of ite scenery possesses a nearei character. Albany, the seat of the Guverainen “GF the state of New York, is a comparatively eh Sarshed weir uit town, not dis paced by the commerce which bustles through the streets of Devakierwia Afre entertained by the Epiclace of the State, one ie intop, a polished gentleman, of great acien tife attainments, and by Van Ratelier, proprietor,of a county which bears his fame, and in fact a nobleman under the appellation of Patron (prone patroon), which in, Irapppes, the Republican myent fot Duke. We also made here the acquaintance of Mr. Celden, a liberal reader of the federal party. We accompanied the Governor to win and the clergyman, a Voyag ve Repeat prayed in express terms for the safety and success 0 x on. At Albany we hired three caadies, with four horses each, to convey us to Lewistown, a distance of about 420 miles. Our arty at this time consisted of five officers, four marines, and Mr. Buchanan, the British Consul, who came with ‘us from New York, and’ accompanied us during our journey through the United States and Upper Canada, faciliting our progress freely by his intimate knowledge of the route, the modes of travelling, and the manners of the inhabitants. After we had struck off, however, from the great western road to Buffaloe, in order to go to Lewistown on the Niagara, we found, as might be expected than the smaller ‘thoroughfare, esa accommodation for #0 large a party. We arrived at s ome of the smaller tons about midnight, after the family had retired to bed, found the door on the batch, and walked in; bit experienced some difficulty, as it was a frenty ‘aight, in getting the family to quit their worn beds, and provide ua With supper.” Mr. Bo Farah kawesen, bit moon. 40 6K te ae eet tee ay. He sent our highland pipere passage reading the ap ad nok marched twite along it to the tans oA the bog of the Glans,”before the landlord, his wife, and five,or ix female attendants, hurried forth.” They took all this in good part, said it was delightful music, cooked some ham for our supper with their name. Lesson, “and spread clean sheets, on the beds which they left, and which, on our entering them, we found atiil warm. From Lewistown we crossed the Niagara to Queenstown on the Canada side, and went about seven miles up the river to visit the justly celebrated Falls. Many have endeavoured to describe these Falls, and I think with very little success. I shall not make a new attempt, but merely remark, that, notwithstands all Thad read on the subject, and the various drawings I ha veen, the grandeur of the scene far exceeded my previous con ceptions of it. All the other cataracts which have seen, dwindle, on comparison with this, into insignificance. It is a Mupendous monument of the power of the Creator of the Uni verse, who wields at will an element that mocks the atmnat strength of feeble man. Place Xerxes and his Satraps and chaing, or the mightiest potentate at the head of the most mage efficent army that ever trade the earthy within the current of that powerful stream, and a single minute would suffice to aw them and their cumbrous tratn to utter destruction. This neigh bourhood in a place of summer resort for the inhabitants of the State of New York, and a hotel fur the accommodation had been built so as to overlook the Falls. This, with some sights of wooden stairs, to enable the visitors to ascend and descend the backs of the river, are no ornament to the scene; neither do they ir jure it, and perhaps the Cataract of Niagara is the only one in the world that would not be injured by such adjuncts. But it is framed am so mighty a plan, that the eye, on contem plating its tremendous rush of waters, lets slip from observation every work of art. From Niagara we proceeded to Port George, situated on Lake Ontario, at the influx of the river, and, crossing the Lake, we landed at York, the capital of Upper Canada. After a stay of twenty-four hours at this place we proceeded in carts, by miser able roads, and through a thinly settled country, to Lake Se aicoe, which we croised, and descending the Nakawasega River to Lake Huron, we arrived in a few days at Penetan guishene, a naval depot, situated on one of the bays of that Lake. At Penetanguishene we were joined by twenty-four Canadian voyageurs from Montreal, and on the 23d of April the whole party embarked in two large canocs, which, together with some stores, had been forwarded from Lower Canada the preceding season. In these canoes we coasted Lakes Huron and Superior, and arrived at Fort William on the 10th of May, hav ing suffered a few days’ detention, partly from ice, but princi pally from high winds. , Fort William, previous to their union with the Hudson's Bay Company, was the principal depot of the North-west Fur Traders. Here we exchanged our large canoes for four smaller ones, adapted to river navigation, and, separating into two parties, Captain Franklin and I pushed on a head in a partially laden canoe, while Messrs. Back, Kendall, and Drummond, followed with the stores in the three remaining canoes. We arrived on the 15th of Jane at Cumberland bhouse, which, you may renew her, was our Wintering quarters the first year on our fane, journey through the country; and it was also the i jdenca (uclpe the last winter, of our seamen, who, with “aree boats and some mares under their charge, left England in June 1835 in the Hudson’s Bay ship. They resumed their this sea son on the 2d of June, and we overtook them on the Soth of the same month, in sufficient time to assist them in reaching and crossing the height of land, which separates the waters flowing towards Hudson's Bay, from those which fall into the Arctic Sea. Owing to the unusual dryness of the statom, we experi enced much difficulty in launching the boats through the amis 1 atreams leading to and from this portage, which 5 named, the Methy Carrying-place, and particularly through the ama), Methy River, which is nearly thirty miles long, and which, this season, nowhere offered water sufficient to fuat the boats, ex cept in small pile, between which long and almost dry fords intervened. We had, in consequence, to carry the canoes nearly the whole way, either partially or entirely,a tbr from which the mosquitoes assailed us in spread The carrying-place itself is twelve miles on , over a high ridge of aoad hills, and here the boats were partly carried on men's shoulders, and partly launched the whole distance. After this tedious and laborious operation, during which a considerable number of the men were disabled by dwellings of the legs, we descended the Athabasca river, and reached Fort Chepewyan on the Lake of the Hills, on the 15th of July. By referring to Mackenzie's Voyages, you will perceive that it was from this post that thet enterprising traveller set out on the 3d of June, 1789, 0n that memorable voyage to the Arctic Sea, in which he discovered and navigated the river that bears his name, and opened up to the fur trade a large track of productive country. It was necessary for Captain Franklin to remain at Port Chepewyao until the arrival of Mr. Back, that he might dis charge such of the Canadian voyagers as were to return to Canada this season, and also to make other arrangements, but that the boate ‘which were now four in number, an additional one having been borrowed from the Company, and heavily laden with upwards of two tons of pemmican, besides other stones), might be no cause of delay after the arrival of the canoes, 1 went on with them on the 21st. The canoes, under Messrs. Back and Kendall (Drummond having been left at Cumberland house to botanize on the Sas katchewan), arrived at Chepewyan on the 23d, and on the 25th, Captain Franklin, having sent back to Canada a canoe with the voyagers whose services wre no longer needed, set out after me with the three remaining canoes. The boats reached Slave Lase on the 26th July, only two days later than we arrived at the same place in canoes on the second year of our former jour ney: a difference of speed attributable solely to our acquaint ance with the route and mode of travelling, and the previous arrangements so carefully made by Captain Franklin. After passing two days under the hospitable roof of Mr. M‘Vicar, who was so kind to gs after our former sufferings, I set out a tip and, coasting the southern shore of Great Shave Lake, Entered the Mackenzie. ‘The current of this atately river sept us ra pidly along, and on the 3d of August we arrived at Fort Simpson situated at the influx of the River of the Mountains, and at seven in the morning of the 6th we landed at Fort Nogman, about two hundred miles farther down that river. These two posts are distant from each other thirteen days of winter travelling. At Fort Norman I left a portion of the stores, and a boat and sea crew for Captain Franklin; and going on with the remeet we ascended the current of the Bear Lake River, »” , sinder, the Mackenzie about thirty miles below Dort $7 -#lch juing Lake River has a rapid current, the voyage Wrench Bear formed in eight or nine hours, while its Pent t being per . 5 Ci, . m Well acqupies three or four days. Itia 76 miles long. W. arrived at Fort Franks, then in progress of erection, og 1% 16:1, of August. Mr D. 10, a chief trader of the Hadcon Bay Company, chope oe : aD down with a party of men in the month o don ware ton for us, did not expect to see us before Captain Franklin and his party rendered None ae planet, after T left it, and sending Mr. Back up with the tanges in stores, he and Mr. Kendall proceeded down the river rate wu a crew of seven men, including the Enimgux interpreter. io the third day they passed Fort Good Hope in lat. 67 on the last of the Company's posts, and in three day more reach the sea. The river ftowed into it through many channels, sepa rated by low deltas, which are mostly covered by some Honda. Whale Island of Mackenzie, the limit of his way, mie one of the untermost of these del bas it is surrounded, the fresh water of the river, and it was at until the boat had approached Garry's Island, thirty miles to seaward, that the clear saltwater was perceived, by a well defined Hine, to be separated from the muddy water of the river. Captain Janklin landed on Garry's Island, exactly 81X months from the date of his sailing, from Fingland, and it will excite the gpathy of six friends to learn, that he then displayed, for the first time, a silk fag which was sewed by his lamented wife in her lugtdtness,and delivered with a presentiiment to last too true, that they Were never again ” Garry Laka and in longitude 335 arry’s Idlahd lies in latitude 69. 29, and in longitude 335,41, W. Promits suomit they can may white and black Whales, seals, c. After remaining.g day here, for the purposes of inak ing astronomical observations, and esjbying the Contemplation of a sea clear of ice, they set out on their return, and arrived at this post on the 6th of September. We had, during their absence bestowed upon it the name which st Bow bears, They saw ¢ ough swampa, Sat every step.
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