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farms contain from sixty to eighty acres, laid off in parallelograms. The buildings are good, and the gardens and orchards handsome. We un-derstand that about two miles higher up the river there is another settlement composed of about forty families, and upon Otter Creek, about four miles distant, a third settlement containing about thirty families. These people are Roman Ca-tholics. We were soon informed that the dis-tance from here to Detroit was thirty-six miles by land, and that the road passed through so flat and wet a country, for the greater part of the way, that at this season of the year, it was almost impossible to travel it on horseback, and were advised to wait on the wind for a passage by water. We, therefore, concluded to take lodgings at the house of John Bedient, who has offered to entertain us, and dispatched our men to the boat, with instructions to come up the river Raisin for us, as soon as wind and weather permitted; being so wearied and overcome with our "Jack-o-Lan-tern" excursion, that we could not consent to retrace our steps to the boat. 23d. A strong west wind, attended with heavy rain last night and this day, have prevented our men from getting to us. It is a fact well-known here, that northwest and west winds are as certain to produce cloudy weather as easterly winds with us. This is doubtless owing to the humidity of the vast western lakes. The same winds are severely cold in winter, no doubt from the im-