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that has slightly nipped the young potatoe tops and some 

 other plants, but has not hurt fruit trees much. The wea 

 ther is quite warm again, and vegetation grows apace. The 

 ploughing and sowing has been protracted on account of 

 the hot weather, as few people think of draining their land, 

 either by ditch or water furrows. 



June 10. Dry warm weather, with an occasional small 

 thunder shower, which has improved the wheat much, and 

 it is now coming on the ear. The sowing of oats, planting 

 corn, and potatoes hardly yet finished. Now is the season 

 to transplant the young tobacco plants from the beds, sown 

 as soon as the frosts were out of the ground ; its cultiva 

 tion seems to be extending. 



July &amp;lt;2. Fine pleasant summer of late, with but little 

 sultry weather. Sailed this morning on board the schooner 

 Michigan, loaded with lumber (timber sawed) and tobacco, 

 for Fort Erie, from thence to proceed to Niagara, York, 

 and Kingston, with the former. 



July 6.- -After experiencing some contrary winds, a 

 gale came on, which washed some of the lumber from the 

 deck, and tore the sails, &c., but the wind soon abating we 

 proceeded on our course, and were becalmed a day or two 

 before arriving at Fort Erie, on the 9th July, where two 

 other small schooners lay. 



July 10. Proceeded to Chippawa. 



July 13. Walked out to the Deep Cut, seven miles from 

 this place ; several hundreds of people were excavating for 

 the canal j hands are in request to get it through as soon 

 as possible ; good wages are offered, and the work is not 

 extreme by any means ; 21. 15s. to 3/. 15s. per month, and 

 board, is given according to the abilities of the workmen, 

 and to those having horses and oxen more in proportion ; 

 work from sunrise to sunset ; this is general in all kinds of 

 work, both here and in the United States. I was rather 

 surprised, or disappointed at least, after hearing so much 

 said of the magnitude of the undertaking its large size 

 to admit schooners, &c.- to find it but very little wider than 

 the Grand Junction boat canal in England. Passed down 

 the canal to St. Catharine s, which is on the line of canal, and 

 two miles from the Lake Ontario ; the land generally of a 

 white clayey loam ; in some places strong, and in others 

 approaching to sandy. Beans pretty good ; wheat, peas, 

 and clover (white and red) useful and profitable under good 



