NO EMIGRATION. $9 



of decay ; the town of Niagara, seven miles below, at the 

 mouth of the Niagara river, having engrossed all the trade, 

 excepting the forwarding of merchandise up, and produce 

 down from the upper part of the province. Queenston is in 

 a pleasant and very healthy situation, and the country 

 pretty well cleared back ; the houses are in a state of dila 

 pidation. There is the small but neat and healthy village 

 of St. David s, two miles back of hence. A steam boat lay 

 at the wharf, which runs to various parts of Lake Ontario. 

 June 30.-- -Returned again through Chippawa to the 

 Ferry. People busy getting up their hay ; crops are light 

 through the unusual drought : great plenty of cherries along 

 the road side, in the orchards, of which every passer by 

 takes what he can eat without let or hindrance, or it being 

 thought a trespass. Two or three stages run between the 

 Falls and the Ferry during the summer months. 



July 1.- Stopping with a farmer, a native of Canada, till 

 I can look about for a situation. Cherries are abundant 

 this year, as also fine large red currants, some of which 

 they preserve, and dry others. Wild gooseberries and 

 currants near the woods, but not very tempting. Wild 

 raspberries plenty, and tolerably good. Plenty of grapes 

 also, but not yet ripe. Saw a number of dead fish along 

 the beach, one upwards of twenty pounds weight, killed 

 against the rocks by the violence of the waves in a storm. 

 Also a few of the only species of a duck that breeds here, 

 called shell-duck, they live on fish, and are not very good 

 eating ; one of them had thrrty-five young ones. 



July 4. Fine and warm, or rather hot. The Americans 

 celebrating their independence by firing guns, cannon, &c. 

 Grass rather alight crop, through the uncommon dryness of 

 the season, not having baen any rain of consequence for 

 seven or eight weeks ; stiil the pastures are not burnt up, 

 nor is the ground one quarter so much cracked as it would 

 have been in England with the same drought. The dryness 

 of the ground causes the atmosphere to be more heated 

 than usual, yet there has been only two or three days 

 I thought too hot, and in these I was helping the farmer 

 and his son get up some hay without being much incon 

 venienced, as there is often a fine cool breeze from the lake 

 in hot weather. 



July V4. Left the above farmer, who had treated me 

 friendly, and wished me to call on him, and make his house 



