172 GODERICH HOTELS EAGLE S NEST. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Goderich Hotels Eagle s Nest Doctor Dunlop Cheap Dinner 

 Search for an East Lothian Farmer Goderich Poverty of 

 Settlers Canada Company State of Goderich Settlement 

 Journey to London Mr T*** Aux Sable Creek Ship-builder 

 from Essex Negro Settlement Notices of Nature Robinson 

 Hotel Mode of Travelling Huron Track Roads London 

 St Thomas Port Stanley Emigrants from Argyleshire 

 Dirty Beds Agricultural Notices. 



ON arriving- at Goderich, we could not get admittance to 

 Reid s hotel, unless my friend and I would occupy half a bed, 

 which induced us to drive to that of Mr Fisher, where we 

 slept uncomfortably on the floor, the landlady telling us, 

 while preparing the pallet, that Goderich was a poor place. 

 While partaking of tea, served up after the fashion of the 

 States, I imagined the sugar had been put into the pot, as 

 there was none visible in the apartment, but next morning 

 I discovered it was mixed with the cream. Fisher s hotel was 

 crowded with workmen of all descriptions, and by way of 

 kindness, I suppose, we were invited to breakfast with the 

 family. My shoes had long remained uncleaned, and I got 

 them blackened here by paying 3d. sterling, which was 

 unprofitably spent money, as a few minutes walking in dewy 

 grass rendered them as brown as before. 



After breakfast, we walked in the direction of Dr Dunlop s 

 new cottage, on the north side of the river Maitland, and 

 named the Eagle s Nest. The situation seems happily chosen, 

 and the name is characteristic of the owner. We spent a con 

 siderable time in examining the vegetable productions of the 

 large islands formed by the river, which, at the time we saw 

 it, was a mere brook, until overtaken by a shower, which 

 compelled us to return to Goderich without reaching the 



