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oats, barley,* pork, beef, butter, eggs, fowls, &c. , many 

 on other business, and some on visits. The assembly too 

 being still sitting, makes the town yet more stirring. 



Jan. 6. Left York again for the west; the road full of 

 sleighs, and the taverns lull of travellers, a great proportion 

 of whom, both ladies and gentlemen, are as well and as 

 fashionably attired, and respectable in appearance, as might 

 be expected from the same number in England. Sumner v s 

 Tavern, in Dundas-street, has a great run of business, and 

 deservedly, as it is well conducted, and kept by an obliging- 

 person ; and there are several other good taverns on this 

 route. Travellers with sleighs generally stop to bait and 

 warm themselves every ten or twelve miles. Farmers ge 

 nerally carry their own provisions and oats for horses, and 

 mostly keep them well, the Dutchmen in particular, who 

 may be compared to the Quakers for prudence and success 

 ful perseverance, but inferior in education. Turned off 

 Dundas-street, by the Little Lake to the village of Hamil 

 ton. Here, in the neighbourhood of Burlington Bay, is 

 perhaps as beautiful and romantic a situation, as any in the 

 interior of America, and seems eminently situated and 

 adapted by nature as one of the first commercial points in 

 the province. 



Jan. 8. Arrived at the Great Falls once more, which 

 appear ever grand, and ever new. This astonishing, and 

 almost incalculable concentrated power the greatest in the 

 world, is nearly unheeded as to useful purposes, there being 

 only three small mills put in operation by its might efforts, 

 while thousands might be wrought. At the village of Chip- 

 pawa, where the river Welland enters the Niagara, is the 

 beginning of the rapids, which run to the Falls. At their 

 commencement, the water in the river is within five or six 

 feet of the top of the level bank, and has a descent of 200 

 feet in a mile and a quarter. By means of a duct or chan 

 nel, cut to convey the water from the mouth of the Welland 

 towards the Falls, how easy this immense power might be 

 brought into operation, at much less expense in proportion, 



* The winter barley is mostly sown in Canada. It is asserted by 

 some that spring bailey will not do well, but I believe the contrary, with 

 proper management. I would recommend emigrants to bring out a 

 small quantity of the early Thanet cr Fulham barley, as good barley is, 

 and will be, in request, since breweries are established. 



