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house, except that in the kitchen. The frost has 

 given the woods a grey look, instead of the 

 beautiful orange autumnal tints they had before. 



" Four years ago there were but two houses 

 here; now it is a nice thriving town, with a 

 neat church, a large school-house, and some very 

 good shops, or stores, as they are called j and 

 the houses are in general very neat. 



" We have been visited by several respectable 

 families. There is a gentleman here who was 

 for twenty-five years engaged in the North-west, 

 or fur trade, and during that time he never once 

 returned to his family. He had left home at the 

 age of thirteen, and underwent all kinds of 

 adventures and hardships. One winter, when 

 their provisions fell short, he and his companions 

 were obliged to eat their leather aprons, and even 

 the leather of their shoes !" 



" Coboury, Jan. ls. We have been de- 

 tained here longer than we intended ; first by the 

 illness of my eldest girl, and next, waiting for 

 snow to make the roads fit for travelling ; at 

 present they are in such a state of roughness 

 from the hard frost after the heavy rains of last 

 month, that the jolting of either cart or waggon 

 could not be borne. There are no covered car- 

 riages here. In winter, sleighs (sledges) are 

 used, or waggons, which are neither very nice 

 nor easy. They are very roughly made, with two 

 seats placed across, one before the other, and 



