e scenes of important operations during the war, discharge
themselves into Lake Erie.

On the north-western side of the entrance to the Niagara river stands,
at a distance of 565 miles from Quebec, the British fort Erie, at best a
very inconsiderable work. Near to the same outlet from Lake Erie is
Buffalo Creek, on the border of which is built the American village of
Buffalo; and about 2 miles beyond it, Black Rock, where there is a
battery, and a ferry, about 800 yards across, to Bertie, in Upper
Canada. The Niagara proceeds at a quick rate past several small and one
large island, called _Grande Isle_, 10 miles long; about 2 miles below
which, on the American side, and distant 2 miles from the Falls, is the
site of Fort Schlosser. At about the same distance from the Falls, on
the opposite side, standing on the northern bank of the river Chippewa,
is the British village of the same name, distant from Fort Erie 17
miles. Chippewa consisted chiefly of store houses; and near it was a
small stockaded work, called Fort Chippewa. At the distance of 23 miles
from the entrance to the Niagara, is Goat Island, about half a mile
long, and which extends to the precipice that gives rise to the
celebrated Falls. The larger body of water flows between Upper Canada
and Goat Island, at the upper end of which island the broken water, or
_rapids_, commence. Here the stream passes on both sides of the island,
over a bed of rocks and precipices, with astonishing rapidity; till,
having descended more than fifty feet in the distance of half a mile, it
falls, on the British side 157, and on the New York side 162, feet
perpendicularly.

From the cataract, the river is a continued rapid, half a mile in width,
for about 7 miles. At this point stand, opposite to each other, the
villages of Queenstown and Lewistown. The latter, situate upon the
American side, contained, till destroyed as a retaliatory measure,
between forty and fifty houses. At about six miles and a half from
Queenstown, near to the river side, stands Fort George, then constructed
of earthen ramparts and palisades of cedar, and mounting no heavier
metal than 9-pounders. About half a mile below Fort George, and close to
the borders of Lake Ontario, stood the beautiful and flourishing village
of Newark, which was burnt by the Americans.

Directly opposite to Newark, upon a neck of land projecting partly
across the mouth of the river, which is here 875 yards in width, stands
the Am