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clover seed can be raised, and, by the agency of thrashing- 

 machines, brought to market early enough to be shipped 

 to Europe in the same season. There is a species of wild 

 cotton growing about the fields, which, of an improved kind, 

 perhaps, might be of some service in stuffing mattrasses, &c. 

 -or to the manufacturer. 



Every person must perceive the great advantages of the 

 provinces of Canada over the United States, with regard to a 

 market for the produce of the two countries. Canada can 

 export to Great Britain timber, grain, whiskey, pork, hemp, 

 clover, tobacco, and any other produce at all times, on paying 

 a trifling duty ; while the States often cannot export some 

 of the above articles to Britain at all, except through Canada; 

 and then, and in every other case, by paying higher duties 

 than the Canadas. 



CHAPTER IX. 



DEPARTURE FROM UPPER CANADA TO QUEBEC, AND 

 RETURN TO ENGLAND. 



July 22, 1829. Left the western part of the province 

 with a vessel load of lumber for the lower part, by the way 

 of Fort Erie and the Falls, landed on the 24th, and forwarded 

 the lumber by Durham boats to Chippawa, eighteen miles, to 

 be drawn in waggons across the Portage. 



August 18. Arrived at Kingston in a steam boat from 

 Niagara and York, (a considerable influx of new store 

 keepers into York this season), and left it on the 20th for 

 Prescott, down what is called the river, having the main 

 land on the left, broken into numerous little bays and inlets. 

 On the right hand, hundreds of islands of all sizes, from 

 eight or ten miles across, to as many rods only. We some 

 times passed between two of them, so near each, that an 

 active person could almost leap from the steam boat deck on 

 either hand. These islands are still retained in the hands 

 of government, generally; and are not inhabited, being in 

 most places too barren, except on the south sides, where 

 some squatters have made clearings, and settled, for making- 

 rafts. 



Stopped a few minutes at some places in our passage 

 down. Brockville is a handsome improving village^ with two 



