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bushel, considerable quantities grown in this neighbourhood ; 

 some farmers have from twelve to 1400 bushels in a year, 

 although they seldom employ but few hands besides their own 

 amilies. Indeed they are not to be procured, as nobody 

 n the country works out much ; they nearly all have land 

 of their own. From the west you approach Ancaster 

 without any rise of ground, but on arriving at it you find 

 yourself on the edge of an eminence, or mountain. The 

 country before you, and on each hand, is broken, preci 

 pitous and romantic, and in summer must be beautiful, and 

 no doubt healthy. This ridge or mountain runs north-west 

 towards Lake Huron circuitously, and south-east across the 

 Viagara at Queenston, before noticed, and onward through 

 Lockfort, in the States. Ancaster is a large thriving hand 

 some village, with some smart buildings, good houses, and a 

 neat new church situated on the brow of the hill, down 

 vhich a small but constant spring-stream runs, supplying 

 ,wo distilleries, a brewhouse, and a large mill, &c. This 

 &amp;gt;lace, I am told, mostly belongs to one of four brothers, 

 Scotchmen, of the name of Crooks, who have all been 

 members of the colonial assembly. Passed on along a 

 meandering road over hill and through dale, to Dundas, a 

 pretty little, yet fast increasing, village, situated in a vale, 

 by the side of a clear stream, two miles from Ancaster. It 

 is also about two miles from the Little Lake, from which a 

 canal is to be cut next spring. This is a beautiful, romantic 

 part of the country. A harbour is now making at Bur 

 lington, and a communication between the Little Lake and 

 Lake Ontario, and should the proposed canal through the 

 country to London, from this place, be carried into effect, 

 it will become the emporium of a large and fertile part of 

 the province. Stopped in Dundas for the night, at an excel 

 lent tavern kept by a Mr. Jones from Birmingham ; in the 

 village there is another tavern, kept by another English 

 man, but most of the inhabitants appear to be Scotch. 

 There is a thriving settlement of tolerably rich Dutchmen 

 north-west of this place, in the township of Waterloo. 



Nov. 7. After purchasing a pair of common boots, 185., 

 pair of socks, 2s. 3d., and pair of mittens, 2s. 3d. t I left 

 Dundas, along Dundas Street (road), winding up round the 

 hills with my friend, and then through a deep vale, on 

 a partly new-formed road, which was very dirty and very 

 slippery, through the thawing of the remains of the snow, 



