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CHAPTER XV. 



Journey from York to Coburg Mail Waggon Mr Somerville 

 Agricultural Notices Clay Kneading Female Helps seating 

 themselves at Table Port Hope Coburg Agricultural Notices 

 Fast Eating Excursion to Peterborough School-fellow- 

 Peterborough Rice Lake Notices of Nature and Agriculture 

 Settlers -High Price of Land Injudicious Settlement Bay 

 of Quinte Indian Settlement Canada Thistle Kingston 

 Storekeepers and Store-pay Grasshoppers Lake of the Thou 

 sand Isles River St Lawrence. 



MY friend D and I left York at 5 P.M., on 16th July, 



by the Kingston mail, an open waggon, drawn by two horses, 

 and reached Windsor, a distance of twenty-nine miles, at two 

 in the morning. The roads were worse than any yet travelled 

 on, and a driver stopped two hours at a hotel notwithstanding 

 our anxiety to get him away. 



The soil, for ten miles down the margin of the lake, is poor 

 sand, covered with pines, until passing some ridges, where 

 there are good farms ; here night shut out the face of nature. 



From Windsor, in the township of Whitby, we set out on 



foot, after breakfast, to visit Mr W , to whom we had a 



letter, and found him suffering under ague at Mr Somerville s. 

 I was anxious to see Mr Somerville, from having heard his 

 letter, which appeared sometime before in the Edinburgh 

 Quarterly Journal of Agriculture^ censured by my lately- 

 imported countrymen, and his establishment and prospects 

 ridiculed. He received us kindly, and after walking over the 

 farm, we returned in time for an early dinner. 



On entering the house it was necessary to go one by one, 

 as the door opened so as to close up the passage leading to 

 the kitchen, through which we entered to the sitting-room, 

 where we dined. Both apartments were small, clean, and 

 crowded with old-country furniture. The house was a log 



