. Minnesota and the far West : . ty is built is almostperfectly level, it has the appearance of indefiniteextent. There were flags flying to point out hotels,and upon the only rising ground in the neighbourhoodthe stars and stripes were floating also to denoteYankee supremacy, for it was crowned by a neatwhite-washed stockaded fort. Upon our side therewas little to boast of. One of the Hudsons BayCompany forts stands vis-d-vis to the oppositionestablishments, and a large hotel and some stragglinghouses near it are the habitations of Her Majestyssubjects in these remote regions. They looked soc
. Minnesota and the far West : . ty is built is almostperfectly level, it has the appearance of indefiniteextent. There were flags flying to point out hotels,and upon the only rising ground in the neighbourhoodthe stars and stripes were floating also to denoteYankee supremacy, for it was crowned by a neatwhite-washed stockaded fort. Upon our side therewas little to boast of. One of the Hudsons BayCompany forts stands vis-d-vis to the oppositionestablishments, and a large hotel and some stragglinghouses near it are the habitations of Her Majestyssubjects in these remote regions. They looked socheerless that we determined to sacrifice our patriotismto our comfort ; and though the steamer landed uson British ground, in half an hour afterwards we had 90 THE CHIPPEWAY HOUSE. crossed the river, and were craving admission at thedoor of the Chippeway House, a rambling woodenhotel, in which we hoped to find accommodationuntil an opportunity offered of enabling us to pur-sue our voyage to the western extremity of A PART II.—LAKE SUPERIOR. CHAPTER IX. THE SAULT STE. MARIE. One of the most certain indications that a country isin an early stage of development, is to be found inthe importance which attaches in the eyes of theinhabitants to those localities in which a few ofthem have congregated together, and which, contain-ing a population that would be deemed unworthy ofnotice elsewhere, here form the nuclei of futuretowns, and furnish, to a greater or less extent, sup-plies for present wants. The traveller whose wan-derings have hitherto been confined to more civilisedregions, will not improbably experience a feeling ofdisappointment, when, after an arduous journey, hereaches at last the goal upon which all his hopeshave been set for many weeks past—which hasformed the staple topic of conversation—and whichhe has invested with charms whose absence have 92 A DELUSION DISPELLED. only served to render his imagination more particu-larly susceptible to
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