86 HAGGERSTON. 



Haggerston in Maryland. Both here and in 

 Pennsylvania, which we had now left, the 

 horses are strong and heavy, resembling the 

 waggon-horses of England; and, indeed, the 

 waggons employed in transporting commodi- 

 ties from Frederick across the Alleghanies, 

 drawn by six or eight powerful animals, put 

 one much in mind of the old English stage 

 waggons, to which he was accustomed forty 

 years ago. 



Between Haggerston and Frederick, a dis- 

 tance of twenty-five miles, the country is high- 

 ly cultivated, the fields large and quite clear- 

 ed of stumps, and the crops of wheat abun- 

 dant and far advanced. 



From the day I left Toronto, we had expe- 

 rienced frequent heavy thunder-storms, and 

 the weather throughout the journey was cool 

 and pleasant, and generally of a temperature 

 not materially different from that of my own 

 country, consequently without any of that op- 

 pressive heat which I endured in Canada. 



I arrived at Frederick, which is but a small 

 town, at three o'clock afternoon, having been fif- 



