various specula

arrived at great

and market-places, indulged in tions, prospered for a long time, respectability, till at length he committed the heinous, unpardonable crime of being found out; he was immediately cast into prison, by a virtuously indignant, but highly benefited people. This speculative and unfortunate individual's name is Rathbun.

In

Lake Erie is but shallow; the length is two hundred and forty, the breadth varies from forty to sixty miles, but there are many shoals and rocks, the causes of constant and dreadful losses. stormy weather, the seas are short and dangerous. The harbours are few and distant, and, during the winter, the navigation is much impeded by ice. The level is three hundred and thirty-four feet above Lake Ontario. Lake Huron is larger and deeper, Michigan still larger and deeper, Superior largest and deepest of all.

In these waters, the Americans have a far greater quantity of shipping than the English. In the last war, on the 10th of September, 1813, this lake was the scene of one of their greatest triumphs; Commodore Perry destroyed or took the whole of the British squadron under Captain Barclay. After that engagement, the command of the navigation

OR,

ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD.

Dranite

EDITED BY

ELIOT) WARBURTON, ESQ.,

AUTHOR OF

"THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS," "REGINALD HASTINGS,"

&c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

Fourth Edition, Revised.

LONDON:

COLBURN AND CO., PUPLISHERS,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.