Mr. Murray [in his " British America"] states, that the 

 Agriculture of Canada, was in 1 839, most rapidly increasing, 

 and the Province, had for many years exported Wheat and 

 Flour into the United States. A report of the Committee 

 of the House of Representatives gives a return of quantities 

 80 imporfrd : thev wpre 



Dubh. >VUe»t. Cwt. Flour, Dush. Wheat. Cwt. Flour. 



1831 585 5 1831 1,232 20 



183:2 I.1G3 3 isrjj 23G.n»4 28,483 



1833 1.581 3(5 18:50 115.850 not known. 



The amount in value being 374.})3l) dollars. 



Parliampntfiry Returns give the following particulars. In 

 1840, Lower Canadaimported 1074 biirrels of Wheat Flour, 

 and exported 157,2()0 bushels of Wheat, und a03,07l 

 barrels of Flour. The total value of Corn exported was 

 £49 1.507 sterling. The total value of imports of uil articles 

 was £1,1303.043— of exports £l.(j;>j,(>8r). 



Cattermole, a gentleman, who gave Public Lectures in 

 1831, on the advantages of Kmigrulioii to ('aiiadu, speaking 

 of the Upper Province, «ay« "it would bo dillicult— perhaps 

 impossible, to find in any othor region of the globe, a tract of 

 country of the same magnitude, with so many natural udvan- 

 tages as that part which lies between Lakes Ontario, Krie, 

 Huron, and the Ottawa river, nine-tenths of the whole of 

 which are calculated for the exercise of almost every descrip- 

 tion of agricultural labour, and with such a prospect of success 

 as perhaps no ol'ier part of the Continent could realize. A 

 part of this tract of country commencing in the npi<>;hbour- 

 hood of Kingston, and running westward nearly 500 miles 

 to the Sandwich frontier by a depth northward of about 100 

 miles, is of itself capable of supplying all liurope withgrhin." 

 Mc Culloch also says "That part of Upper Canada which 

 •tretches from Lake Sitncoe and the rivers Trent and 

 Severn, westward to Lake Huron and the St. Ciair river, 

 and southward to Lake Frio, and part of l^ake Ontario, has 

 a soil of extraordinary fertility, capable ©f producing 

 luxuria)it crops of wheat and every sort of grain. The soil 

 is more genial for vegetation than Lower Canada." A 

 •writer in Black wood (Vehnvdry, lb:38) observes that "The 

 quantity of good soil in Canada is proportionate to that uf 

 any other country of the globe. It is in some places singu- 

 larly fprtile ; 50 bushels of wheat an acre are u frequent 

 produce. In some instances 100 bushils have been ob- 

 tained. The soil of Upper Canada is chielly composed of 

 brown day and loam intermixed with marl." In the Colonial 

 3Iaffazinc (Mar'^h, 1840) are the following observations, 

 "The soil, although of almost every variety, is mostly fit for 

 agricultural purposes, being rich and deep with the spoils of 



