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spring and fall many were almost impassable. The only piece of 

 gravelled hard-made road I noticed for some years, was the main 

 street of York. There is plenty of stone or gravel along the Lake 

 shores, and, indeed, in some places it is to be procured on the 

 roadside. Stone or gravel, in some parts of the west, is scarce, I 

 allow ; yet, if it must be conveyed by water, or carted some dis 

 tance, it ought to be done for the main roads at least, and when 

 once done would take little trouble to keep in good order ; it is 

 only in the spring and fall that any are required, as the summer 

 and winter roads would be used nearly three quarters of the year. 

 Good bridges are likewise much wanted in almost every part of 

 the province. There are a few good substantial wooden frame 

 ones built of late; but there are numbers of logs, some of which 

 are nuisances it is at the risk of the neck to ride over them, 

 and probably you cannot avoid them. A native will pass over 

 these bridges, through practice, without noticing them, while an 

 European just arrived would shudder. 



A settler at Niagara has obtained a patent to run stages from 

 Ancaster to Sandwich, through Oxford and Westminster, for 

 twenty-one years, on condition of running a sufficient number for 

 public accommodation, and to keep the road in proper order ; this 

 may probably benefit the province, although the Contractor s being 

 a foreigner caused some dissatisfaction, and an observation that 

 it was an American job, to convey their own mail via Detroit, as 

 being the nearest route. 



No. 6. GOVERNMENT NOTICE FOR GRANTING LAND. 



&quot; For the information of persons arriving in Upper Canada, as 

 settlers, the following summary of the rules which his Majesty s 

 Government has thought fit to lay down for the future regulation 

 of grants of land in the province, in conformity to the system 

 which has been recently adopted with respect to other colonies of 

 his majesty, has been prepared, in compliance with instructions 

 from Earl Bathurst.&quot; 



1. A valuation will be forthwith made of the lands throughout 

 the colony, and average prices struck for each district. 



2. All lands in the colony, not hitherto granted and appro 

 priated for public purposes, will be offered for sale at the average 

 prices thus fixed. 



3. All persons proposing to purchase lands, must transmit a 

 written application to the government through the office of the 

 Surveyor General, or by an officer to be appointed by him for that 

 purpose in the several districts, on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. 



4. All correspondence with the government respecting grants 

 of land, must take place through the same office. 



5. The purchase money is to be paid by four quarterly, or five 

 annual instalments, as the party applying may desire, but in the 

 latter case, legal interest shall be payable annually, from the time 



