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made money and continues to make it. What 

 might not be accomplished under a more ra- 

 tional system ? 



Limestone abounds here, but is not, as far 

 as I could learn, made use of in cultivating 

 land, and perhaps it is not necessary it should, 

 as the soil may already contain sufficiency of 

 calcareous earth. Stone dikes enclose the 

 fields and are neatly built as in Scotland. 



The storm having long detained us, I had 

 it not in my power to visit any other of the 

 Scotch farm-houses, but proceeded to Caledo- 

 nia, a considerable town with two hotels. 



Here I procured an interview with a Scots- 

 man, from whom I learnt that 250 Scotch fa- 

 milies are settled in this neighbourhood ; the 

 greater part of them came over forty years 

 ago with very little capital, many of them 

 with hardly sufficient to purchase a yoke of 

 oxen ; they all got wealthy and now they 

 own farms varying from 200 to 600 acres 

 each. According to my informant, the mode 

 of fanning among these settlers, does not dif- 

 fer from that followed by Mr Macnaughton, 



