[161] This first steam-boat on Lake Erie was launched at Black Rock (now Buffalo), May 28, 1818. It was named from a Wyandot chieftain, and in 1821 was lost in a storm.--ED. [162] The Erie Canal was begun at Rome, New York, July 4, 1817, being completed in eight years.--ED. [163] Morse has stated the _average_ depth at this place (the ferry) to be twenty-five feet. According to him, its average rapidity from thence to Chipeway is six miles an hour, and that at the ferry it is much greater.--FLINT. _Comment by Ed._ Jedidiah Morse, _American Gazetteer_ (Boston, 1797). [164] The height of the division of the falls that lies between the island and the south-east shore has been formerly estimated at 160 feet. I have been told that a measurement made last summer has determined it to be 162 feet.--FLINT. [165] Lake Ontario averages six hundred feet in depth.--ED. [166] For an account of General Isaac Brock, see Buttrick’s _Voyages_, volume viii of our series, note 6.--ED. [167] Durham boats were heavy freight craft built along the lines of an Indian canoe. Their designer (about 1750) was Robert Durham, manager and engineer of the Durham furnace, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The ordinary Durham boat was sixty feet long, eight feet wide, and two feet deep. When laden with fifteen tons, it drew twenty inches of water.--ED. [168] Flint seems here to have obtained his facts from a typical guide-book. Fort William Henry, the scene of the massacre, stood at the head of Lake George; Montcalm captured it in 1757, and spread terror to Albany, and even as far as New York. Many of the prisoners of war were massacred by Indians, over whom the French claimed to have had little or no control.--ED. Important Historical Publications OF The Arthur H. Clark Company Full descriptive circulars will be mailed on application “The most important project ever undertaken in the line of Philippine history in any language, above all the English.”--_New York Evening Post._ _The_ Philippine Islands 1493-1898 Being the history of the Philippines from their discovery to the present time Explorations by early Navigators, descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples, their History, and records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of those Islands from their earliest relations with European Nations to the end of the nineteenth century. _Translated, and edited and annotated by_ E. H. BLAIR _and_ J. A. ROBERTSON, _with introduction and additional notes by_ E. G. BOURNE. With Analytical Index and Illustrations. Limited edition, 55 volumes, large 8vo, cloth, uncut, gilt top. Price $4.00 net per volume. “The almost total lack of acceptable material on Philippine history in English gives this undertaking an immediate value.”--JAMES A. LE ROY in _American Historical Review_.