" Our party on the island proved very pleasant, which that
kind of a party seldom does. The day was fine, the country
cheerful and the band delightful. We walked some time in the
shady part of the island and then were led to a bower, where the
table was spread for dinner. Everything here is on a grand
scale ; do not suppose we dined in an English arbor. This one
was made of forest trees and bushes, which being fresh cut, you
could not see where they were put together, and the boughs were
the whole height of the trees though quite close at the top. The
band was placed without and played whilst we were at dinner.
We were hurried home in the evening by the appearance of a
thunder storm. It was the most beautiful I ever remember to
have seen."

Let us now have a little further testimony to the beauty of
the Detroit River, and this time from the celel^rated Mrs. Jame-
son, the authoress, and wife of our first vice-chancellor, who, in
1837, visited it, and when Mr \ Woods had the pleasure of meet-
ing her, as she knew her uncle the American Consul in Vienna,
Austria.
