A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . 4 I 180 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW The Van Kleeck House. men have been borne down to the awfulverge, and plunged to unknown depthsin the black gulf beneath. The vicinity of Niagaia has been sig-nalized by several important militaryevents. The French fortress of Fron-tenac, at the mouth of the river, wascaptured by the British, after a siege;Fort Erie, at the head of the stream,was taken by the Americans, in the warof 1812 ; Buffalo was burnt by the ene
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . 4 I 180 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW The Van Kleeck House. men have been borne down to the awfulverge, and plunged to unknown depthsin the black gulf beneath. The vicinity of Niagaia has been sig-nalized by several important militaryevents. The French fortress of Fron-tenac, at the mouth of the river, wascaptured by the British, after a siege;Fort Erie, at the head of the stream,was taken by the Americans, in the warof 1812 ; Buffalo was burnt by the ene-my ; Lewistown was taken, by an Amer-ican force, by a bold coup-de-main, aftercrossing in boats, and scaling an almostinaccessible height on the shore. Thebattle of Lundys Lane and Bridgewa-ter was fought within a short distanceof the cataract, and gave the Americanssome of their greatest advantages in thatunhappy contest. Grand island, a little above the cata-ract, is a good agricuhural region, andis remarkable as the site of the proposedcity of Ararat, offered as a gather-ing-place of the Jews, and as a campoccupied by the invaders of Canada, inthe late attempt at revo
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