FOOTNOTE:

[1] Lake Ontario was crossed from Toronto to the wharf at the mouth of
the Niagara River in an ordinary double-scull, lap-strake
pleasure-skiff, by the writer and another Argonaut--Herbert
Bartlett--one unruly morning in the summer of 1872. Though a risky row,
and not previously attempted, it was not regarded as a remarkable feat
by the performers.

[Illustration: VIEW OF QUEENSTON ROAD, ABOUT 1824]




CHAPTER VI.

BRIDLE-ROAD, BATTEAU AND CANOE.


The means for transit through Canada at this time was most primitive,
and not the least of the questions which occupied Brock's thoughts was
the important one of transportation. The lack of facilities for moving
large bodies of men and supplies, in event of war, was as apparent as
was the lack of vessels of force on lake and river.

Between Quebec and Montreal, a distance of sixty leagues, the overland
journey was divided into twenty-four stages, requiring four relays of
horse-caleches in summer and horse-carioles in winter. The time occupied
was three days, and the rate for travellers twenty-five cents a league.
This rough road--which entailed numerous ferries in summer at the Ottawa