& in about 7 miles of a very swampy
tedious road, thro’ good land abounding
with poplars & with other timber
heavily loaded, we arrived at lake
Erie. Here we gratified our
eyes a while in viewing the obsequi
ous element, as far as the convex
state of the globe would admit
We now turn’d still more to the
right, & went along the beach to the
mouth of Buffaloe 29 miles; The pros-
pect the remaining part of this day
was pleasant, & it was rather heighten’d
by our being so long confin’d to the woods.
The road was in places good, but in
other places very heavy, the gravel
being near fetlock deep. We had
the lake on our left, the surf rolling
gently to the shore in waves two or
three feet high, On our right was