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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journey to Detroit

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about 10 A.M. the wind shifted round to
N.N.W., we made sail, and run through the
Islands - in the afternoon it fell calm, at
6 in the evening we were about 10 miles below
the Islands.­ This being the first day p
(and just 10 weeks since we passed the same Islands)
Friends had a Meeting in the Cabbin, which was
in the main a satisfactory time.

19th.

Little wind all the last night, mostly
from the N.E. - this morning almost
calm, the Bass Islands still in sight -
light airs of wind all Day from the Northward
- we made but little progress.

20th.

Last night about 10 a fresh breeze
sprung up from the N. N. W. which conti-
nued untill this morning - the fore part
of the Day calm - at 1 P.M. a breeze sprung
up about N.B.E. about which time a Vessell
hove in sight a stern of us which we
suppose to be the Ottaway bound to Fort
Erie

- at 4 P.M. close in with the Land
near the mouth of Elk River on the South
side of the Lake, - tack'd and stood to
the Northward

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