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August 14th Sunday 15th Left Montreal at 5.45 A.M stopped at Rouse's Point, frontier village. The Americans have built & are still building a large fort here with 3 tiers of guns if I recollect right we were not able to get a boat or carriage here so went on to Burlington by rail & across to Port Kent & Keeseville 16th Visited the walled banks of the Ausable, it is as though the hills had been cleft in two & the Ausable flows in the chasm below. The prevailing religion here is as usual R. Catholic. The Methodist Episcopal Church
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August 14th Sunday 15th Left Montreal at 5.45 A.M stopped at Rouse's Point, frontier village. The Americans have built & are still building a large fort here with 3 tiers of guns if I recollect right we were not able to get a boat or carriage here so went on to Burlington by rail & across to Port Kent & Keeseville 16th Visited the walled banks of the Ausable, it is as though the hills had been cleft in two & the Ausable flows in the chasm below. The prevailing religion here is as usual R. Catholic. The Methodist Episcopal Church
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