. The story of Isaac Brock, hero, defender and saviour of upper Canada, 1812 . distance of sixtyleagues, the overland journey was divided into twenty-four stages, requiring four relays of horse-caleches insummer and horse-carioles in winter. The time occupiedwas three days, and the rate for travellers twenty-fivecents a league. This rough road—which entailed numerousferries in summer at the Ottawa and at Lake St. Francis,except for a break of fifty miles—led by Cornwall andPrescott to Kingston, along which route United EmpireLoyalists twenty years before had established themselves. A few years
. The story of Isaac Brock, hero, defender and saviour of upper Canada, 1812 . distance of sixtyleagues, the overland journey was divided into twenty-four stages, requiring four relays of horse-caleches insummer and horse-carioles in winter. The time occupiedwas three days, and the rate for travellers twenty-fivecents a league. This rough road—which entailed numerousferries in summer at the Ottawa and at Lake St. Francis,except for a break of fifty miles—led by Cornwall andPrescott to Kingston, along which route United EmpireLoyalists twenty years before had established themselves. A few years prior to Brocks arrival, Governor Simcoe,with the men of the Queens Rangers, had cut a roadwaythrough the dense forest between Prescott and Burling-ton, at the head of Lake Ontario. From Ancaster, thethen western limit of the U. E. Loyalists settlement, thisroad traversed the picturesque region that surroundedthe Mohawk village on the Grand River, where JosephBrant, the famous warrior, was encamped with his SixNation Indians. From this point it penetrated the roll- 40. QUEEf^STON ROAD ABOUT 1S24.(Orig^iiial painting: by Charles \V. Jefferys, ) The Story ui LtAds, ui\J-^^-CHAPTER VI. BRIDLE-ROAD. BATTEAU AND CANOE The means for transit through Canada at this time wasmost primitive, and not the least of the questions whichoceiipied Brocks though ns- portation. The lack les of men and supplies. ut as was the lack of Between Qr leagues, the - four stages, reqi: ni summer and ) ed was three do ve cents a leagut as ferries m summer at the Ottawa ani at. l^ake St. i^rancis,except for a break of fifty v ^ by Cornwall and Prescott to Kingston, along \.;, ..ate United Emrnr.^Loyalists twenty years before had established the^ A few years prior to Brocks arrival, G- ton, > ad of Lake Ontario - of the U. E. L amous V. -iix us. From : * .11-
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