A Fall Tour

Nearly all of the early settlers liere were York State people, and the writer of tbis is a son of two York Staters, wlio came to tbis couoty Ir 1832, long before there waa a campus or court house square in tliis now beautiful city, and wbeo nothing but a log tavcrn composed the settlement, occupylng the aite of the present Masonic temple. On Monday, the lst day of September, and of fall, tbe writer, accompaniad by his life companion, started east to view for the lirst time in bis life, a section of New York that had giren Michigan many a good citizen. A trip to New York leavlng out Niágara Falls, is no trip at all, go we stopped at the Falls. Standing close to the rushing, roaring, foaming waters of that great cataract, and taking in the grandeur and power and miijesty that nature there displays, one fet:!s wbat au Infinitesimal speek in tbis great world he is. If there is a person on this terrestial sphere wlio is at all conceited the place to take that human frailty out of him is to let liini stand below this niighty rush of waters and gaze upward. It will forever impress him with the might, power and grandeur of tbe God of Nature, and erase from his mimi auy ideas that he may have of bis own importaiice in this world of ours. Here U at least one place on earth wbere adjectives have no value. Leaving the Kalls and taking atwenty minute ride on the cars to Lewiaton, one beholds a inagnillceut scène of rugged splendor as the cars wind around tbe stone banks of the Niágara rlver. It causes one'shead to whirl, to gaze down uto the fearful rush of waters in the rap ids below, wblle upon the otber side the Bteep.rock-ribbed walls hut off all i'iews. Taking a boat at Lewiston, and salling dowu the Niágara river, wliich is very tranquil from there on to the L ike, one fuels himself almost in falry land gilding calmly on to ever chunging scènes. It takes upwards of four hours to cross the west end of Lnke Ontario and reach the city of Toronto. Arriving there we go aboard anotber boat belongiug to a C iimlian line and pmoeed east on a culin and placid surface of liquid glass. At about 6 o'clock the ncxt mom Ing we enter the Dicturesque St. Lawrence rivtr.with ilH ;ritiil sciiiiery. Oue's pene 1 fails to picture on paper the quiet beauty of this delightful river with its ui most never ending array ot islands on whicli beautiful and plcturesque houses hare been erected by wealthy peopla. Around among tliere falry islands occupied by summer cottages and summer pulaces, ply river boatg for the accommodation of the IfOand dwellers. How peaceful, calm, deliciously luzy it looks to one in tbis dellglitful región of summer splendor. How deliühted the eyes; how stilled the nerves; how liv ly and vivid the muginatinii, ms one floats past these beautiful isles on the road of tlie inland seas to the océan. At the qu.-iint old Cmiadiau town of Prescott our journey by bout comes to an end. Not quite, either, for the ferry takes ns across the United States once raoro, and we lnnd la Ogdensburg. Sume ti f leen miles south and east of thls city lies the quiet Hule vlllage of Cantón, and hete we ltave the cars and are taken hito the country some miles. St. Luwrence county is a land truly flowlng with niilk and heney. It is a grazing country where the f ai mera pay little attentiou to vereals and farm crops, only raising enough for their own consumption. Kvery farmer has from ten to a hundred cows, and the great event of the day is milking time. This done the farmer h;is a comparatively easy time except through haylng. The country is liilly and oue is surprised to see the great ledges of rock that occastonally erop out. In driving along the country occasionally a lield will be noticed that seems one solid rock, yet over a portion of tías rock some eartb will be 8cttred and on this there grows a graM tlutt is forerer green and whlc.h Í9 s-iiil to be very nutritiou, whicli must be the fíisc for every animal pastured in these iii-1 la w.ig plump and sleek, good for beef, altUough milch cows. Some of of these rocky lielJs hardly look as though they would f nrnisli food for a pair of goats, but they evidenl'.y are deceiving to the eye. AuOther feature of this country is the l:irge rocks tcattered among the fitlds. Yon will be driviug along and see wliat you take to be a barn or house way out in the iniddle of a field, but when you druw ncarer it provea to be a huge rock, rcstini; there silently with not another stone perhaps in half a miie, :ind with rich, tillable land all around it. We remember pussing one lield where there were as many as twenty or th'rty of these great rocks, clustered together, and looklug at a disUnce like a cluster of buildings about the uize of Judge Cheevei's olH -a, aud sonr: of tliem very much the shape tliereof. These stones look very much as if some huge ship (an iceberg probably) liad sailed over the land and dumped these stones there. (Contlnued nezt week.)