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about 27s. to 32s. per barrel of 200 pounds. In the 

 marshes about the Bay grows a long coarse grass, which 

 the settlers cut for hay at the fall of the year,when the 

 water is low. 



Dec. 19. Proceeded to Otter Creek, eighteen miles, 

 chiefly through woods and by occasional beginnings of set 

 tlements. This will be a fine country, not only for its dry 

 and good soil, and consequent healthiness, but for its excel 

 lent pines for lumber, and the fine streams for machinery to 

 cut it up. Many saw mills are erected in the neighbour 

 hood, and in operation ; and several schooners employed 

 transporting the lumber to Buffaloe, Cleaveland, and De 

 troit in the United States, where it generally fetches good 

 prices, as there are but few good pineries on the American 

 side of the Lake ; it is worth from 15s. to 35s. per thousand 

 feet at the mill, and from 35s. to 3/. 10s. in the States after 

 paying the duties (4s. 6d. per thousand feet, I believe). 



Dec. 20. Left the Lakes, and pass through the woods to 

 Talbot Street again, passing a few solitary houses and a mill 

 or two in my way. Stopped for the night at Wheeler s 

 tavern (one of the first frame ones in the street). An Indian, 

 from a neighbouring camp, came in with two &quot; hams,&quot; 

 (haunches) of venison, and a deer skin, having killed two 

 deer and wounded three others that day, and killed nearly 

 forty this season. The tavern keeper gave him one pint of 

 whisky for each ham, and two pints for the skin, only ; 

 and that nearly half water ; but liquors are their bane. On 

 the Cat-fish Creek, between the Otter and Kettle Creek, a 

 little back from the street, is a settlement of Quakers ; 

 there are several others about the province, one at the back 

 of Fort Erie ; they are mostly from the State of Pensyl- 

 vania. 



Dec. 21. Arrived at Port Talbot again: snow here not 

 half an inch deep, but sharpish frost. Salt selling at five 

 dollars per barrel, or 22s. Qd. ; at Buffaloe only 9s. Tea 

 in the latter place 4s., here 6s. or more. Salt nearly all 

 comes from the States, and as there is so much used by the 

 universal practice and necessity of giving cattle, sheep, arid 

 horses, some every week or two, it, with tea and leather/ 



* Tea is now imported into Canada, direct from China, in an 

 East India ship yearly, and is as cheap as in the States, which has 

 stopped the smuggling from thence, and, in some instances, it is re- 



