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 crop every year — Gout de terrain. — Mr Geddes's farm. — Rich 



soils of the Onondaga salt group. — Rotation followed. — 

 Exhausting effects of this rotation.-^Average produce of the 

 State and of its richest western counties. — Profits of farm- 

 ing. — Property confers no political privilege. — Experiments 

 with gypsum. — Wages of farm-servants. — Section of the 

 wheat region of western New York. — Beautiful relation of 

 the soils to the rocks. — Quantity of salt manufactured at 

 Syracuse. — Consumption of salt in the United States and in 

 Great Br-itain.— Revenue from the salt springs. — Method of 

 extracting the salt, . . . . . .157 



CHAPTER VII. 



FROM SYRACUSE TO BUFFALO AT THE FOOT OP LAKE ERIE. 



Railway to Buffalo. — The Americans a clever people. — Joe Smith, 

 founder of the Mormons. — His removal to Missouri, to Ohio, 

 and Illinois. — Progress of his sect. — New State of Utah, on 

 the Salt Lake. — Character of the book of Mormon. — Canan- 

 dagua. — City of Rochester. — Genesee flour. — Value of farms 

 on the Genesee River. — Profits of farming in this valley. — Mr 

 Wadsworth's farms and farming. — Inducements to invest 

 money in land in New York State. — Relative values of rural 

 produce and of human labour. — Average produce of the 

 Genesee country. — New York does not produce wheat enough 

 for its own consumption. — North-east America not a danger- 

 ous competitor in the English wheat mai^ket. — Duty upon 

 Canadian wheat. — Importance of the direct trade to Em'ope 

 by the St Lawrence. — Erie Canal ; its trafi&c and revenue. — 

 Number of emigrants from different countries. — Influence of 

 New England on the development of the new States. — Demo- 

 cratic party. — Principles of the Old Hunkers and the Barn- 

 burners, . . . . . . .192 



CHAPTER VIIL 



BUFFALO AND THE NOKTH-WESTERN STATES. 



City of Buffalo ; causes of its rapid rise. — Influence of the growth 

 of the Western States on the agriculture of western New 

 York and Upper Canada. — Home ideas as to these new 

 States. — Cheap wheat does not imply rich land. — Michigan. — 

 Average produce of this State, and of its several counties. — Can 



