NO EMIGRATION. 



parts of the United Kingdom. Upwards of 000 vessels, with 

 3,000,000/. worth of timber, loaded yearly, which is a great 

 benefit to the country, as it is full of timber. Cord 

 wood in York sells at 9s. to 13s. 6d. per cord, (a cord is a 

 stack of eight feet long, four feet high, and cleft in lengths 

 laid across, of four feet); 2s. 6d. per cord is given for chop 

 ping and splitting it up ; an expert chopper will do three 

 cords in a day. Europeans, on their first arrival in this 

 country, are inferior to Americans in the use of the axe, but 

 soon will, with attention, get sufficiently handy, and be their 

 equals. Fine large fruit grows at the heads of both Lake 

 Erie and Ontario ; saw an apple from the latter, which 

 weighed 18oz. and there are some 25 ounces each. 



Dec. 1. Engaged board and lodging at a respectable 

 tradesman s house, at 11s. 3d. per week. The members of 

 the general Assembly or Parliament are coming in to open 

 the Session on the oth, according to proclamation ; the greater 

 part lodge at private houses, (two in the house with me), 

 at from 13s. 6d. to 18s. per week, with a private room and 

 board. Many members of this assembly come thirty or forty 

 miles on foot, through bad roads, which their legislative 

 powers ought to place in a good state, but grants for improv 

 ing the highways are opposed, while they vote themselves 

 9s. per day from the time of leaving home to their return, 

 which they contrive to make as long as possible by their 

 lame, petty wrangling and squabbles in the House, evidently, 

 in some instances, to protract the close of the session. The 

 seat of government will be eventually removed to some more 

 eligible and secure part of the Province, ns it is too open, 

 and exposed to surprise by an enemy in time of war, and 

 the country too flat for fortifications. London is talked of, 

 at the forks of the Thames ; but perhaps at the head of 

 Lake Ontario, in the beautiful, romantic, and healthy neigh 

 bourhood of the Little Lake, would be the most eligible. 



Dec. 5. Fine pleasant day. At one o clock the cannon 

 announced the attendance of the Lieutenant Governor (Sir 

 Peregrine Maitland) to open the Session of Parliament, ac 

 companied by a number of the military, and a band of music 

 playing national airs. When he was seated on the throne, 

 surrounded by his aid-de-camps, and some members col 

 lected in front, the Governor delivered a written speech, 

 after which the members retired from the council chamber to 



