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Excerpt from Travels Through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, Vol. 2: In the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797; With an Authentic Account of Lower Canada During this whole day's journey nothing te markable came within oin view. Thea' no fetflement 'between Ofwego and the Falls. Ou pafs by an ifland, which. Has, taken the name of Brefwit from a French officer, who in the {even years war obtained here an advantage over acome bined corps of Englifh troops and Indians. The ifland is throughout covered with wood, and {o is the whole country, through which we have hitherto paffed. Two miles from the falls fiands a houfe, which appertains tomr. Van verberg, a Dutchman, who 18 charged in the country with g1v1ng information to °the garrifon of the {mug glers who intend to run any commodities mto the province in the night, and with being an Englifh fpy in regard to deferters. This charge, which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.