A Subaltern's Furlough, Vol. 2 of 2: Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova ... Summer and Autumn of 1832 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from A Subaltern's Furlough, Vol. 2 of 2: Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, During the Summer and Autumn of 1832

The village of Auburn itself is tastefully built, within two miles of the Owasca Lake, whose outlet washes the prison wall. Its rapid rise is somewhat retarded by the quantity of work turned out by the convicts; yet at the same time a large sum of money is necessarily in cm culation amongst the contractors for furnishing rations(which are at the rate of about 21 dollars (41. 7s. 6d.) per annum, each prisoner), and for payment of the arti cles received from the prison, which are retailed at a great per centage.

Proceeding to the village of Cayuga, situated near the northern extremity of a lake of: the same name, we em barked in a steamer which plies upon the lake, and crossed to the opposite side, touching for some more pas seagers at a village connected with Cayuga by a bridge exceeding a m1le in length, over which the western road passes. The extreme length of the lake is 40 miles by 2 at its greatest breadth. The scenery is tame and un interesting, until towards the southern end, when it as sumes a more pleasing appearance, the banks becoming high and craggy in some places, and in others cultivated to the waters's edge. But throughout there is an over powering quantity of dense forest, with an intervemng space of eight or ten miles between villages. For the last few miles, the face of the country presented a sin gular appearance, being broken every hundred yards, or thereabouts. With narrow and deep ravines, formed by the heavy rush of water from the hills in the spring of the year. In some, the rock was rugged and bare; in others the grass had sprung up again, or, where the ground more easily yielded to the force of the torrent, there were long and heavy undulations, like the swelling of the sea.

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