fifty yards
wide, and runs through a dense and beautiful forest.

[_Travels_:

Lockport, to which we repaired, while the boat was left in the basin
at the foot of the locks, is an extremely interesting place, and is
situated just above the locks....

At Lockport we took a dearborn for Buffalo, where we were anxious to
go, in order to see the union of the canal with Lake Erie. Though a
good stage runs between Lockport and the Falls of Niagara, we went
in this bad vehicle five miles, to the navigable part of the
canal.... The village where we went on board, is called
Cottensburgh, and is quite a new settlement. At this place also the
canal is cut through rocks to the depth of about thirty feet. About
two or three miles farther on, it terminates in the Tonnawanta
Creek, which serves as a canal for twelve miles.... The creek itself
is about fifty yards wide, and runs through a dense and beautiful
forest, which has never been touched by the axe, except along the
canal, where they have been obliged to make a tow-path....]

At the new town of Tonawanta, the creek unites with the Niagara river,
where the sluice leads off. At this place also Alida and her company had
the first view of the Niagara river, which conveys the waters of Lake
Erie into Lake Ontario, from the other extremity of which flows the St.
Lawrence. In this river they observed Grand Island. During the late war,
the Niagara, it is well known, formed the boundary line between the
United States and the British provinces in Upper Canada, and this island
bore testimony of the conflict.

[_Travels_:

.... not far from this junction was the site for the new town of
Tonnawanta. A few small houses and a saw-mill were already erected;
the inhabitants appeared also to suffer much from the intermittent
fever. Here the Tonnawanta Creek, unites with the Niagara, where the
sluice which we have just mentioned leads off. At this place also we
had the first view of the Niagara river, which conveys the waters of
Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, from the other extremity of which flows
the St. Lawrence. In the river we observed Grand Island.... during
the late war between England and the United States, the Niagara, it
is well known, formed the boundary line between them and the British
provinces of Upper Canada, and this island bore testimony of the
bloody conflict.]

CHAPTER XXVI.

From war's dread ravage