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Page 

 ■ — Beauty of Sussex Vale. — Mr Evanson's home- farm. — Mv 

 Alton's farm. — Hampton, and its conglomerate soils. — Fine- 

 looking yeomen of New Brunswick. — Price of farms. — A dis- 

 contented Irishman. — Dyked marshes of St John and the 

 Atlantic border. — Rate of wages for agiicultural labour in the 

 several counties of the province, . . ", . 102 



CHAPTER V. 



FROil ST JOHN IN NEW BRUNSWICK TO SYRACUSE IN WESTERN 

 NEW YORK. 



Steamboat from St John to Portland, in Maine. — Railway to 

 Newhaven, in Connecticut. — Alleged rudeness of American 

 manners. — Farming in Connecticut and Massachusetts. — Yale 

 College. — Number of Students. — Expense of residence. — Infe- 

 rior position of professional men. — Estimation of lawyers and 

 medical men. — Favouring of quacks. — Medical schools in the 

 United States. — Elm-trees of Newhaven. — Tree-toad. — Fair- 

 haven ; its oyster-trade. — Two species of American oysters of 

 large size. — Railway to Albany up the Housatonic Valley. — 

 Post-tertiary clays and sands of the upper valley of the 

 Hudson River and of Lake Champlain. — Natui-al forests 

 which grow upon them.^Schenectady. — Valley of the Mo- 

 hawk. — Rich bottoms of this valley. — Broom corn, {Sorghum 

 saccharatum,) its extensive cultivation. — German flats. — Utica. 

 • — German population. — Change in the meaning of familiar 

 vi^ords. — Choice of judges by popular election. — Titular judges 

 and generals. — Popped com. — Flour of Indian corn ; varieties 

 in its colour. — City of Rome. — Mr Clay. — Verona. — Arrival 

 at Syracuse, . . . . . . .131 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE CITY OF SYRACUSE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



Syracuse. — Its rapid growth. — Populai'ity of Mr Clay. — Show of the 

 New York State Agricultural Society. — Agricultural imple- 

 ments. — What they teach. — Law against long leases. — Breeds 

 of stock in New England, and in the Western States. — Merino 

 sheep. — Trotting horses. — Condition of agriculture. — Fniit 

 region of Western New York. — Profits of apple-growing.' — 

 Quantity of fruit exported. — Varieties of apples in the 

 United States and in Normandy. — Apple-trees producuig a 



