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1  testimony of the early settlers on this part of the Niagara frontier; and beyond the point to which their own

2  at a much earlier period, found their way to the Niagara river.

3  time stood upon this old field. The majestic Niagara, with an unbroken expanse, bore its affluent

4  New York in 1810, in his account of a "Ride to Niagara," says that he came to Miller's Ferry, along the

5  between the State Reservation line and the Niagara river; this line meeting the river at the foot of

6  of the State of New York to the ferry across the Niagara river. To this act Mr. Ellicott refers in his letter

7  title to the Mile Strip Reservation on the Niagara river. This act recognizes the existence of a ferry at

8  and poured its crystal water into the ungrateful Niagara. A few years ago this laughing stream was turned

9  creek, had made an attempt to get up the Niagara into the lake to join the squadron, but had been

10  in 1804. Speaking of the Mile Strip along the Niagara river, he says:

11  of the lakes, that Bird Island, at the head of the Niagara, was called Black Rock, and gave this name to

12  the Mile Strip. It will not do to say that the Niagara river begins "just below Black Rock," and that here

13  country, and it was the only place to cross the Niagara river above the Falls. The landing on the United

14  twelve o'clock, M. ; the ice was so thick in the River Niagara, that it was impossible to cross until three

15  to the mouth of Buffalo creek, he says: "The river Niagara begins two miles further north, at, or rather

16  the original map of the lands laid out along the Niagara river, made by Joseph Annin in 1803, there is vacant

17  banks of Lake Erie." He says: "The ride along the Niagara is beautiful; the country, well settled. In

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From the nineteenth century publications of the predecessor of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.