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particle of sugar to sweeten their tea. This state of things 

 arose from laziness, their possessions being large, their 

 time unoccupied, and the juice of the maple might have been 

 collected a few yards from their residence for the making of 

 sugar. 



At the time of my visit nine-tenths of the hotel-keepers 

 and stage-drivers, and most of the active business people, 

 had originally come from the United States. Every horse 

 and ox of size or fatness could be traced to have come from 

 the same territory, and the Canadians appear to me to be 

 much indebted to the people of the United States for any 

 activity and refinement that is to be met with in the pro 

 vince. 



The first settlers, the people of business, and almost all tra 

 vellers for pleasure or health, having come from the United 

 States, their manners and customs have been impressed on the 

 inhabitants of Upper Canada, and I do not think the large 

 influx of British emigrants which has taken place of late 

 years will efface them. I found much less refinement than in 

 the lower province or in the United States, while the coarse 

 manners of the people, and their habits of intemperance, were 

 so prominent, that I heard more oaths and witnessed more 

 drunk people the first few days I was in Canada, than I had 

 met with during my previous wanderings in the States. I must 

 do Upper Canada, however, the justice to say, that such cha 

 racters appeared to be late importations from Britain and Ire 

 land, and I was sorry to observe intoxication was by no means 

 confined to the lowest class of emigrants. 



Knowing that a great deal of moral worth, physical energy, 

 and capital, have lately flowed into Canada, I have no doubt 

 of time producing an important change in the state of the 

 country and people. Indeed, hewing down the forest may be 

 termed mortgaging labour to nature, whose generous returns 

 accumulate like compound interest, and 1 look on Upper 

 Canada as the germ of a numerously inhabited and wealthy 

 state. Nothing but misgovernment can prevent such a con 

 summation. A number of human beings have, however, been 

 most improperly seduced into the province of late years, and at 



