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bombazetts, black and white silk stockings, damask table cloths, napkins, cotton, striped 

 nankeens, bandana handkerchiefs, catgut, Tickenburg, brown hoUand, Creas a la Morlaix, 

 Italian lutestring, beaver caps for children. Tlien we have Hyson tea. Hyson Chaulon in small 

 chests, young Hyson, green, Souchong and Bohea, loaf. East India and Muscovado sugars, 

 mustard, essence of mustard, pills of mustard, capers, lemon-juice, soap, Windsor do., indigo, 

 mace, nutmegs, cinnamon, cassia, cloves, pimento, pepper, best box raisins, prunes, coffee, 

 Spanish and American "segars," Cayenne pepper in bottles, pearl barley, castor-oil, British 

 oil, piclded oysters. Furthermore, china-ware is to be had in small boxes and in sets ; also, 

 Suwarrow boots, bootees, and an assortment of men's, women's and children's shoes, japanned 

 quart mugs, do. tumblers, tipped flutes, violin bows, brass wire, sickles, iron candlesticks, 

 shoemakers' hammers, knives, pincers, pegging awls and tacks, awl-blades, shoe-brushes, 

 copper tea-kettles, snaifle-bits, leather shot belts, horn powder flasks, ivory, horn and crooked 

 combs, mathematical instruments, knives and forks, suspenders, fish-hooks, sleeve-links, 

 sportsmen's knives, lockets, earrings, gold, topaz do., gold watchchains, gold seals, gold 

 brooches, cut gold rings, plain do., pearl do., silver thimbles, do. teaspoons, shell sleeve 

 buttons, silver watches, beads. In stationery there was to be had pasteboard, foolscap paper, 

 second do., letter paper, black and red ink powder and wafers. There was also the following 

 supply of Literature : Telemaehus, Volney's Views, Public Characters, Dr. Whitman's Egypt, 

 Evelina, Cecilia, Lady's Library, Eeady Reckoner, Looking Glass, Franklin's Fair Sex, Camilla, 

 Don Raphael, Night Thoughts, Winter Evenings, Voltaire's Life, Joseph Andrews, Walker's 

 Geography, Bonaparte and the French People, Voltaire's Tales, Fisher's Companion, Modern 

 Literature, Eccentric Biography, Naval do.. Martial do.. Fun, Criminal Records, Entick's 

 Dictionary, Gordon's America, Thompson's Family Physician, Sheridan's Dictionary, Johnson's 

 do., Wilson's Egypt, Denon's Travels, Travels of Cyrus, Stephani de Bourbon, Alexis, Pocket 

 Library, Every Man's Physician, Citizen of the World, Taplin's Farriery, Farmer's Boy, 

 Romance of the Forest, Grandison, Campbell's Narrative, Paul and Virginia, Adelaide de 

 Sincere, Emeliui, Monk, Abbess, Evening Amusement, Children of the Abbey, Tom Jones, 

 Vicar of Wakefield, Sterne's Journey, Abelard and Eloisa, Ormond, Caroline, Mercutio, Julia 

 and Baron, Minstrel, H. Villars, De Valcoui-t, J. Smith, Charlotte Temple, Theodore Chypon, 

 What has Been, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Verse, J. and J. Jessamy, Chinese Tales, New 

 Gazzetteer, Smollet's Works, Cabinet of Knowledge, Devil on Sticks, Arabian Tales, Gold- 

 smith's Essays, Bragg's Cookery, Tooke's Pantheon, Boyle's Voyage, Roderick Random, 

 Jonathan Wild, Louisa, Solomon's Guide to Health, Spelling-books, Bibles and Primers. — Our 

 extracts have extended to a great length : but the animated picture of Upper Canadian life at 

 a primitive era, which such an enumeration of items, in some sort affords, must be our apology. 

 Rendered rich in money and lands by his extemporized mercantile operations, Mr. St. George 

 returned to his native France soon after the restoration of Louis XVIIL, and passed the rest 

 of his days partly in Paris and partly on estates in the neighborhood of Montpelier. During 

 his stay in Canada he formed a close friendship with the Baldwins of York ; and- on his depar- 

 ture, the house on King Street, which has given rise to these reminiscences of him, together 

 with the valuable commercial interests connected with it, passed into the hands of a junior 

 member of that family, Mr. John Spread Baldwin, who hunself, on the same spot, subsequently 

 laid the foundation of an ample fortune. — (It is a phenomenon not uninteresting to the retro- 

 spective mind, to observe, in 1869, after the lapse of half a century, the name of Quetton St. 

 George reappearing in the field of Canadian Commerce.) 



Advancing now on our way eastward, we soon came in front of the abode of Dr. Buruside, 

 a New England medical man of tall figure, upright carriage, and bluff, benevolent countenance, 

 an early promoter of the Mechanics' Institute-movement, and an encourager of church-music, 

 vocal and instrumental. Dying without a family dependent on him, he bequeathed his property 

 partly to Charities in the town, and partly to the University of Trinity College, where a 

 scholarship perpetuates his memory. 



Just opposite was the residence of the venerable Mrs. Gamble, widow of Dr. Gamble, 

 formerly a surgeon attached to the Queen's Rangers. This lady died in 1859, in her 92ud year, 

 leaving living descendants to the number of two hundred and four. To the west of this 

 house was a weU-remembered little parterre, always at the proper season gay with flowers. 



