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It was, in fact, a sterile looking place. I saw but one pretty residence, and this belonged to Mr. Ralph Granger, brother of the Hon. Francis Granger, of Canandaigua, N. Y. It looked like an oasis in a sandy desert. The night after leaving there I was awakened by the cry of fire, and starting from my sleep, perceived the cabin to be full of smoke. Some of the ladies were fainting, others were on their knees in prayer, and such a scene of fright and confusion I never saw before. As for myself, I inwardly made a vow, which has, of course, been broken, that if
I was permitted to reach terra firma in safety I would tempt the waves no more. After a voyage of five days we reached Detroit, which was not the city it has since become.
" By noon the next day we had engaged teams, and loaded two with beds, bedding and other articles that would first be wanted, and came out as far as Ten Eycks, which was ten miles. My romance now began to look wonderfully like reality. The roads through the timbered lands were so much cut up by loaded teams and the tide of emigration that was pouring in, that riding in a carriage was anything but comfortable. But I had not, as the saying is, seen the elephant until we came to those long causeways of huge uncovered logs. After riding over one we concluded to try our pedestrian powers, and accordingly walked over the remainder, which were neither ' few nor far between.
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