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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journal of Joel Swayne

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and abandoned with many curiousi
ties formed by nature and is very
instructing to a contemplative
mind we rode at the rate of about
five miles per hour, until we came
to a stream of water called Carigua
ga where we encamped by the side of
the lake and represented ourselves and
know with provisions we carried
with us, we pushed out tent and had
a pretty comfortable night lodging
although cattle
are frequent in these parts
& fed our horses and took breakfast
and set forward on our journey about
six o'clock being pleasingly entertain
ed by the curious lands of the Lake
which in some places we thought
was 80 or 90 feet perpendicular and
interested with different kinds of
stone many of the rocks being over
and by wrong by the waves into coves
and curls in a fantastic manner
about 11 we arrived at Buffaloe Creek


which we crossed in a small flat to
Buffaloe Village on the opposite side
where we remained till next day hav
ing about 80 miles from Genesingatta

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crossed the Niagara

at Fort Erie
about one mile wide and the water