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establishment in Toronto. As regards rough clothing 

 cloth, flannels, woollen socks and stockings, &c., &c., all 

 these can be bought cheaper in Canada than in England, 

 and quite as good. Canadian homespun is famous stuff; 

 it is woven in the settlers' houses, and made out of the 

 undyed wool ; the black, the white, and the grey shades 

 being judiciously intermingled. For shooting dress this 

 is even better and more enduring than Scotch tweed. 

 Canadian tweeds of very good quality are manufactured 

 in the cloth mills. The country-knit stocking and 

 mittens are very cheap and excellent, in fact so are all 

 articles of clothing that come from the sheep's back. 

 Boots are also fairly good, and very cheap ; so is harness 

 and all leather goods. Furniture is cheaper than in 

 England, so is everything that is made out of wood, as 

 might be supposed. There are numbers of large furniture 

 manufacturers in Canada. A house can be built, painted, 

 papered, and furnished in a very short time, and at very 

 moderate cost. Carriages and vehicles suitable to the 

 country are manufactured of excellent quality. A driving 

 waggon costs from 20?. to 25/., a farm waggon about 121. 

 Agricultural implements of all kinds, on the most im- 

 proved principles, can be bought better and cheaper in 

 Canada than in England. There is a reason for this. In 

 a new country, where labour is dear and not always pro- 

 curable on any terms, men have had to set their wits 

 to work to invent labour-saving machinery, and in no part 

 of the world have they been so successful as regards 

 farming implements as in America. From a stumping 

 machine, to drag the stumps out of his farm, to an apple- 

 peeler to assist the good woman to make the " apple-pie," 



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