50 FARM FOR SALE. 



township of Dumfries. In this settlement a farm Is at 

 present offered for sale, consisting of 200 acres, of which 

 60 acres are cleared. Four acres are in wheat, 2 in 

 Indian corn, 24 bushels of oats have been sown, li 

 of buckwheat, and 20 of potatoes. There are also 

 four cows, two oxen, two horses, two heifers, fifteen 

 sheep. 20 tons of hay, with a house 20 feet by 30, and 

 a barn 30 feet by 40, The whole offered for £140 

 currency (£112 sterling.) The only condition is that of 

 ready money. The owner is said to be mad to go to 

 Wisconsin. It ought not to surprise us that some of 

 those who have shifted once — breaking loose from all ties 

 of place and blood — should after a time have another 

 access of the roving fit, and, right or wrong, insist on 

 moving a second or a third time. Changing their 

 country is to many like a change in their religion — they 

 don't know when or where they ought to stop. 



11th August. — This morning, the rest of our party 

 proceeding by land, Dr Robb and myself went up the 

 river in a canoe, as far as Woodstock, that we might see 

 better the general character of the country on either side 

 of the river, and look out for a bed of rock-salt, which a 

 sharp New Englander alleged to exist somewhere by the 

 way. As to the latter point, as the river runs all the 

 way through old slate rocks, our exploration was of 

 course unsuccessful ; but we found a beautiful white vein 

 of quartz, which looked white and glistening like salt, 

 and had most probably been mistaken for it. The 

 shallowness of the river at this season of the year made 

 the pulling and polling heavy, so that we spent a large 

 portion of the day in going over these twelve miles. 



A few miles below Woodstock we stopped to look at 

 a farm on the left bank of the river, ow^ned and occupied 

 by Mr Rankin. It consists of about 1100 acres of inter- 

 vale and upland, of which 100 were in crop, meadow, 

 and pasture, chiefly on the intervale land. It is an 



