CHAPTEE X. 



Kingston. — Soils of its neighbourhood.— Importance of agriculture in 

 Canada.— Show of the Upper Canada Agricultural Society.— Pork- 

 raising in the provinces. — Adaptation of bi'eeds to local circum- 

 stances.— Implements in the show-yard. — Infancy of root-culture in 

 the province.— Alleged difficulty in the turnip-culture.— Rocky- 

 Mountain beans.— Canadian coffee. — British sympathy with colonial 

 grievances. — Alleged pusillanimity of the Governor-general.— Farm- 

 ing in Home district. — Wheat the surest crop in Canada West. — 

 Excellence of the winter wheat. — Best wheat-belt round Lake Onta- 

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

 Large consumption of oats. — Less productiveness of the wheat-crop 

 than in foi^mer times. — Cause of this. — Social position of the farming 

 class in Upper Canada. — Means of improvement now in progress. — 

 United Empii*e Loyalists, — Limited capital of the farming proprie- 

 tors. — Condition of the grants made to the United Empire Loyal- 

 ists. — Renting of land, and farming on shares. — Indian-corn whisky, 

 and malt. — Extensive manufacture of such whisky at Cincinnati in 

 Ohio. — Use of Indian corn in the Canadian distilleries, and of mixed 

 rye and pease. — Whisky from pease. — Prospects of Kingston. — The 

 Ten Thousand Isles of the River St Lawrence. — Descending the 

 rapids. — The Sault St Louis. — Nature of this rapid, and of the 

 descent. — Approach to Montreal. — Metamorphic limestone rich in 

 phosphate of lime. — Agi'icultural value of this rock, and of the 

 mineral phosphate as an article of export. — Deposits of mineral 

 phosphate in the State of New York. — Origin or source of this 

 mineral phosphate, and of garnet, graphite, and other minerals found 

 in crystalline limestones. — Graphite and phosphate of lime in an 

 altered rock, evidences of the former presence of organised bodies. 

 — The crystalline limestone interstratified with gneiss. — Singular 

 contortions exhibited by the limestone. — Dr Emmon's explanation of 

 the cause. 



Sept. 19. — Kingston, on my arrival, partook of two 

 different forms of excitement — one in common with the 



