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 the export of wheat from these new States continue ? — Quantity 

 of seed-corn per acre sown in the several States. — Copper 

 mines of Lake Superior. — Immense masses of native copper. 

 — How they occur. — Ancient Indian workings. — State of 

 Wisconsin. — Popular feeling in regard to the several new 

 States. — Land sold in each in 1847. — Minnesota, the New 

 England of the West. — Influence of these new States on the 

 future traffic of the St Lawrence. — Wonders of the hog 

 crop of Ohio. — Indian corn the staple of Ohio. — Hogs killed 

 in the western States. — How they are fed. — " Packing 

 business" at Cincinnati. — Various marketable products of this 

 business at Cincinnati, . . . . .221 



CHAPTEE IX. 



FROM BUFFALO TO THE FALLS, AND DOWN LAKE ONTARIO TO KINGSTON 

 IN LOWER CANADA. 



Case of American cleverness. — Butcher in Buffalo. — Influence of 

 Europe on the progress of American cities. — Cause of dif- 

 ference in the progress of Canadian and New York cities. — 

 Lake Erie. — Supposed periodical rise and fall in the level of 

 the great lakes. — Water discharged by the Niagara River. — 

 Hotel at the Falls. — Coloured waiters. — Geological Section at 

 the Falls. — Wearing action of the water. — Influence of the 

 winds on Lake Erie. — Influence of the noise of the Falls 

 on their impression upon the mind, — Railway to Lewis- 

 town. — View from the mountain ridge. — Voyage on 

 Lake Ontario. — Profits of New York farming by a New 

 York farmer. — City of Oswego. — Sackett's Harbour. — Railway 

 to Canada. — Kingston in Upper Canada. — Character of the 

 Upper Canadians. — Difference between a Canadian and a New 

 York wife to a working man, . . , . _ 242 



CHAPTER X. 



KINGSTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



Kingston. — Show of the Upper Canada Agricultural Society. — 

 Implements in the show-yard. — Canadian coffee. — British 

 sympathy with colonial grievances. — Alleged pusillanimity of 

 the Governor-general. — Wheat the surest crop in Canada 

 West. — Total produce of Canada West, and average yield per 

 acre. — Diminished productiveness of the wheat-crop. — Social 

 position of the farming class in Upper Canada. — United 



