70 EMIGRATION, OR 



of oxen, eight to ten or more cows, twelve to twenty or thirty 

 fat hogs, two to four or five horses, (half of them or more 

 brood mares), &c. At the age of 21, the sons gene 

 rally leave their parents, if not before, and probably marry, 

 and either buy a cleared farm, or go into the bush, or new 

 wild land ; the last they will do without regret or hesitation ; 

 indeed some prefer it on account of cattle doing so well 

 through the summer in the woods, and the great crops new 

 land produces, and as to the trouble of clearing it, a native 

 would any time rather do it than fallow the same quantity of 

 ground. 



November 2. Bid my friend good morning, and thanked 

 him for his kindness, as he would not accept of any remu 

 neration for my supper and bed ; and proceeded on my 

 journey. Called at a respectable tavern to breakfast. The 

 landlord was gone to the mill ; the mistress to a neighbour s, 

 gossiping ; and no bread in the house nor flour, until 

 the landlord came back. Went on to the next house, a 

 private one, where [ procured some fried meat, boiled 

 potatoes, tea, bread and butter, for which they could not be 

 prevailed on to accept any thing ! Called on an English 

 farmer from Gloucestershire, who lives on a rented farm near 

 the Catfish Creek. He had been in good circumstances 

 in England,, but was reduced, like thousands of others, and 

 must have felt severely. I was glad to find the old man 

 hearty and cheerful; he was hauling up some logs for fuel, 

 with a yoke of oxen, dressed in his old country breeches. 

 He has some good cows, and pretty good sheep. He has a 

 small patch of hops planted in his garden, whose bines 

 have run up the poles very high. Overtaken, to day, on 

 the road, by an English gentleman on horseback, from the 

 county of Sussex, now residing in Ancaster, who accosted 

 me, as he said &quot; he supposed I was his countryman.&quot; 

 He is taking a circuit round the country, to obtain sub 

 scribers to a weekly newspaper he is going to publish. He 

 speaks very highly of the country for health, &c., and for 

 the means of procuring a living by almost any kind of 

 business, labour, or employment; he has travelled through 

 much of the States. Several Englishmen, hereabouts, and 

 indeed all over the provinces, perhaps one-sixth or one- 

 eighth of the whole population. Stopped at Loder s. Some 

 smart lasses came in during the evening, who live just by, 

 most of whom took a smoke with &quot; the landlord and the 



