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PIONEER ROADS
miles. In this stage, we passed the Four Mile Creek. Half the distance from Ransom's was over open country, . . in which many young chestnut-trees are just sprouting from the ground. The rest of our way was through a thick wood, where the growth is the same kind as in the interior of Massachusetts. . .
"From Buffalo we passed along the beach of Lake Erie, to the ferry across its outlet on the Niagara River, at Black Rock, so called, three miles. . ."
