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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ith hostile Indians, the soldiers, by means of portages, reached Lake Erie withtheir bateaux at the present site of Buffalo, early in November. The British officers andtheir men knew nothing of the treachery of the Western waters; no doubt, the goldenhaze spread a veil of enchantment over the lake, and they journeyed on a summer sea,camping at night on the purple-shadowed shores, under the soft sky of the Indian sum-mer. Fair is Lake Erie at this season, fairer than the dream of a heavenly lake aloft inthe clouds; and, lying on its warm sands, gazing off to sea, the dreamer is soon lost ina reverie of golden ease, which makes the present seem a forever. But suddenly therecomes a stir, a mutter, a sullen darkening; and, almost without warning, down sweepsthe gale upon this placid sea, lashing the waves into foam, and sending them thunder-ing up to a vast height against the opposing cliffs. One of these sudden autumn storms averwhelmed Major Wilkinss expedition. 532 PICTURESQUE AMERICA,
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Red-Mill F~alls, Black River, Elyria. Twenty bateaux, most of the field - pieces, all of the ammunition, seventy men, andthree officers, including the surgeon of the regiment, were lost. The survivors, wetand exhausted, reached the shore; and, when the storm had subsided, they made theirway back to Fort Schlosser, on the Niagara River, without even attempting, in theircrippled condition, to reach the besieged garrison of Detroit. Such is the story as gath-ered from the curt accounts of that day; but the exact site of the shipwreck is notmentioned. Here it is that the mouth of Rocky River supplies the missing links. Onthe plateau overlooking the left bank, a bayonet was thrown out by a plough in 1859;and near it a circle of bowlders was uncovered, containing the ashes of a camp-fire, acase-knife, and the blade of an English amputating-knife. This last relic probably be-longed to the lost surgeon, Dr. Williams, of the Eightieth Regiment. The mouth ofRocky River is crossed by a hidden sa

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