Objects of the Trip--Albany, situation and appearance--Erie canal basin--western travellers--rail road--canal boats, packets, line boats and scows--accommodations--number of boats--mode of passing each other--tow-pathbridges--accident in crossing--Erie canal--Villages and grog-shops--Trenton falls--Ithaca falls--Taghcanic falls--Rochester--canal aqueduct--Genesee falls--Sam Patch's last leap--flouring mills--Lockport--double canal locks--deep cut--arrival at Buffalo. Page, 13 CHAPTER II. The city of Buffalo--steamboat on the Niagara river--Fort Erie--Black Rock--visit to Niagara falls--Canada shore--Manchester--State of New-York--emigration--return to Buffalo--different routes to the West--passage in steamboat--Cleaveland--Maumee--Monroe--number of emigrants--vessels on the lake--Detroit--the Canada shore--ferry boats. 25 CHAPTER III. Travelling by stage to the mouth of St. Joseph river--miry roads--Ann Arbor--Upsilanti--oak openings--prairies and woodland--Michigan, level, clear water, but not pure---Jackson--Marshall--Gull lake and prairie--Kalamazoo river--Bronson--Pawpaw river--St. Joseph village--lake Michigan--misfortune of an emigrant--crossing the lake--Michigan city--stage road on the beach. 35 CHAPTER IV. Chicago, a general description thereof--Pottawattomie tribe of Indians, their appearance and actions--the land back of Chicago--the lakes and their original outlet through the Illinois river--character of the inhabitants of Chicago--house rent and provisions. 43 CHAPTER V. Trip to Fox river--fellow travellers--river Oplane--Du Page river and Naper's settlement--big and little woods--pleasant settlement of emigrants--Fox river--upper house--lost in a prairie at night--log house--travelling towards Rock river--gravel hills--Walker's grove. 51 CHAPTER VI. General description of the north part of Illinois--various kinds of trees--prairies--excellent coal--government grant of land--unsurveyed land settled upon--pre-emption right--not subject to fever and ague--wild game--prairie wolves and mode of killing them--prairie rattle snakes, blackbirds and squirrels--manner of judging of a new country--anecdote of a Vermont emigrant--New-Hampshire emigrant--statements of settlers and landholders not always to be credited. 57 CHAPTER VII. Holderman's Grove--Ottawa--junction of Fox and Illinois rivers--Hennipen--Princeton--present and past situation of an emigrant--massacre of Elijah Philips by the Indians, and the fortunate escape of his companions. 66 CHAPTER VIII.