"It has made the name of DeWitt Clinton known everywhere." "I wonder what next!" Sarah exclaimed.
They met many teams and passed other movers going west, and some prosperous farms on a road wider and smoother than any they had traveled.
They camped that night, close by the river, with a Connecticut family on its way to Ohio with a great load of household furniture on one wagon and seven children in another.

There were merry hours for the young, and pleasant visiting between the older folk that evening at the fireside.
There was much talk among the latter about the great Erie Canal.
So they fared along through Canandaigua and across the Genesee to the village of Rochester and on through Lewiston and up the Niagara River to the Falls, and camped where they could see the great water flood and hear its muffled thunder.

When nearing the latter they overtook a family of poor Irish emigrants, of the name of Flanagan, who shared their camp site at the Falls.

The Flanagans were on their way to Michigan and had come from the old country three years before and settled in Broome County, New York.

They, too, were on their way to a land of better promise.