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walk into the country : it being Sunday, and the day fine 

 and pleasant, numbers of farmers and others, and fine veiled 

 females in gigs, cabrioles, and Jersey waggons, were dashing 

 along the different cross roads. Monday, went to Niagara; the 

 houses mostly frame, and painted white, with sash windows and 

 Venetian blinds ; some good convertible lands on the road, 

 and others indifferent ; the roads the best in the Province, 

 and some fine orchards ; altogether this is a pleasant and 

 healthy part of the country. They have plenty of fruit in 

 most of the old settled parts, yet are deficient in variety. 

 There are but few of the best sort of apples grown in Eng 

 land, which is to be regretted, as most kinds flourish admi 

 rably, but few good pears and plums ; damsons, apricots, 

 and nectarines are rare, but excellent. 



July 23. Returned to Chippawa. Harvest is now ge 

 neral ; crops good ; better than in the west this season. 

 Only two steam mills in this village, though so near the 

 power of the rapids and great Falls ; there is also an iron 

 foundry and still-maker. Most of the visitors to the Falls go 

 to see Brock s Monument, and view the surrounding country 

 and Lake Ontario from its top (which is 126 feet high, the 

 base twenty- one), the greater part of whom are Americans 

 from all parts of the States, but mostly from the southern. 

 Numbers of them seem surprised ; Canada is such a fine 

 country, &quot; and what a pity it does not belong to the States,&quot; 

 they say. I happened to be in company at a tavern with 

 some very respectable and sensible New Yorkers, who spoke 

 feelingly on the worse than folly of two nations so nearly 

 allied by blood, who speak the same language, and whose 

 interests are the same, to go to war, as Great Britain and 

 the United States. &quot; Many valuable lives were lost on both 

 sides, and what did they gain !&quot; asked one of them, and 

 much censured his government for the invasion of Canada, 

 to attempt to take it. This is the general feeling of the most 

 enlightened part of the Americans. 



Aug. 1.- Mild moderate weather, with some rain and. 

 thunder of late. Neither men, women, or children in this 

 country alarmed or &quot; scared &quot; at thunder, nor are the latter 

 frightened to go any where in the dark, or indeed but seldom 

 at real dangers, through habit. Saw the first stage coach in 

 this country formed in the English style, built very strong and 

 neat, and drawn by six horses. About 300 sheep brought 



