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level character, it is marsliy or full of water ; and in 

 many others arterial drainage on an extensive scale will 

 probably have to be introduced, before the capabilities of 

 the country can be at all fully developed. 



The escarpment of the Niagara limestone is not 

 everywhere, as I have already remarked, so high nor 

 so abrupt as it is represented in the above section ; but, 

 with occasional breaks, it may be visited along a great 

 part of western New York, with the certainty of com- 

 manding from its summit an extensive view of the flat 

 country below, and of the wide blue lake beyond. It 

 extends also, towards the north, round the western end 

 of Lake Ontario, and then eastward for many miles, 

 forming an escarpment far behind Toronto, carrying 

 with it into Upper Canada a wheat-region, not unlike 

 that of western New York. 



As we steamed from Lewiston through the mouth of 

 the Niagara River, and entered the lake, Queenstown, on 

 the Canadian side, appeared to us on the water to be at 

 least as flourishing as Lewiston, which we had just 

 surveyed by land. The heights above it, on which 

 opposing forces of the same blood, with equal gallantry, 

 fought the battle of Queenstown, and where the well- 

 known pillar commemorates the fall of the brave Sir 

 Isaac Brock, are as high as the ridge above Lewiston, 

 of which I have spoken, and promise to the lovers of the 

 picturesque as wide, and if it bear the eye to the western 

 extremity of Lake Ontario, a wider, and perhaps a still 

 more beautiful view of mixed land and water, high-land, 

 forest, and cultivated fields. 



On board the steamer, I had a concluding conversa- 

 tion on the profits of farming in western New York, 

 with a practical farmer from Syracuse. " The results of 

 my personal experience are," he said, " that money is 

 not to be made by farming in this State. If a farmer 

 hire two men, and work with them, and keep them at 



