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Stage fare to London, $3.
Steamboat fare to Detroit, $l|.
List of Esports from Port Sarniafor the year 1844.
Quantity. Description. Value when shipped.
£. s. d.
400 barrels Potash 2000
10 do. Beef. 17 10
1000 do. Fish 1250
12 do. Sugar 24
120,000 feet Lumber 180
2,800 Standard Staves 31 10
300 bushels Wheat 56 5
Total value of Exports from Port Sarnia. £3559 5
SARNIA.
A Township in the County of Kent; is bounded on the north by Lake Huron;
on the west by the River St, Clair; on the south by the township of Moore
and on the east h\ Plyuipton. In Sarnia 10,540 acres are taken up, of which
1,3GG are under cultivation. Ten thousand acres of the finest land in the township,
reaching from Froomcfield to Port Sarnia, are reserved for the Indians,
who number about 700. They farm a little, but live principally by hunting and
fishing. They have a Methodist chapel and school. This township is well
watered ; the Riviere aux Perches, which takes its rise in Enniskillen, runs
through the township till it reaches Lake Waywanosh, which it enters at its
western side, about six miles from Port Sarnia, and emerges again at its southeast
corner, and enters Lake Huron about eleven miles above Port Sarnia. Lake
Waywanosh, the nt'ar