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reach and the deep blue waters seem to meet the clouds on the other we see Canada the Niagara river. Buffalo is not as large as I expected it has 5 churches court house academies etc this is head of Erie Canal. The Buffalo creek empties in the Lake on the south side of the village and Niagara on the West there is a great revival here July the 11th We were in hopes of taking of taking the boat here to Cleveland but have concluded that it was best to land crossed the Buffalo creek at about a mile below the town by means of a rope ferry. rode 8 miles on the sand beach the hardest travelling I ever saw it was almost impossible to get aland the road ran between the lake and swamp about 10 rods apart we walked on the beach and picked shells and small stones. the sand beach is 8 miles long when we come out a very good road on the shores of the lake in some places the bank was 60 feet high it was delightful travelling on the north Canada was seen but so far off that we could hardly distinguish it from the blue waters of the lake and as we looked to the south we could now and then descry a sail which appeared to be on the very