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the hotel until near midnight with a charivari of all the 

 most discordant noises, vocal and instrumental, which the 

 tongs, kettles, saucepans, and throats of Woodstock could 

 produce. There were also tar-barrels and bonfires on the 

 occasion, and finally a burning in effigy. Fortunately 

 the budding Orangemen did not personally know the 

 man they thus deHghted to honour ; so that Mr Brown 

 himself flitted about the blazing barrels, and enjoyed the 

 burning fun as much as any of them. 



l^th Aug. — Though a little tired with the dissipation 

 of the previous night, we started by half-past seven a.m., 

 to proceed up the river as far as the Grand Falls. 



On leaving the town we turned to the left, forsaking 

 the river, and taking an inland road, for the purpose of 

 passing through some of the new settlements in this 

 county. Jacksontown, at the distance of five or six 

 miles, was the first settlement we entered upon. It is 

 about fifteen years since it was first commenced. The 

 land is good, though now and then patches, overspread 

 with sandy drift occur, bearing the ill-omened Everlasting 

 as their natural produce. 



I stopped a few minutes at Hannah's farm, on which 

 reapers were at work. It consisted of 200 acres, of which 

 80 were cleared. This, besides building a nice house, 

 he had cleared with his own hands in thirteen years. 

 The cradlers, who were cutting his grain, received from 

 1 to 1 J dollars a day, besides their victuals. They were 

 lumberers, who at this season of the year are usually at 

 home. 



Most of the land in this region is granted ; and here I 

 first began to hear from the mouths of working farmers 

 the complaint which has been made successively in all 

 the provinces, and is not unknown in the newer States of 

 the Union, that large portions of the best land have been 

 granted — that is, sold at the Government price — to spe- 

 culators, who buy for the purpose of liolding on till the 



