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where we tarried all night. 20th. We proposed returning to Detroit this morning, but the wind coming a head, and blowing hard, prevented us - we went to Francis Cornwalls, a Connecticut Man, were we dined, and J.M. and myself, were kindly entertained at his house all night. 21st. Wind still at N.E. with much Rain and very cold for the season - the transitions from heat to cold, in this country, being very frequent, and I think to a much greater degree than in New Jersey - about 5 in the afternoon it began to clear away, but the wind still against us, Jacob Lindley and John Elliott left us and went on foot up to Detroit. 22d. A fine pleasant morning - after breakfast we embark'd in our Canoe, and with the assist-ance of Fred Arnold, pushed up against the current to Detroit - A young Canadian we met with at F. Cornwall's inform'd us he had been several voyage's in the N.W. Trade, that they generally left Montreal in the begining of the 5th month, and that, without any stop but making the best of their way, it took them so late in the fall, that the Rivers were often frose, before they got to their Journeys end. - the Indians they met with there were mostly a harmless honest People. Their