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In travelling from New Lowell towards the west, a rough broken 

 piny region several miles in width, and in many of its features 

 resembling the country around Otterville, in South Oxford, is passed 

 through, but much more fertile land, and also more hilly, is travelled 

 over as you approach the thriving railroad village of Creemore, which 

 village consists mostly of excellent brick stores, churches and dwel- 

 lings, and in picturesqueness of situation and environment reminded 

 one of the village of Elora, m the County of Wellington. Creemore 

 is situated at the foot of the Blue Nottawasaga hills, which here have 

 a steep rise of several hundred feet, but whose sides are alluvial and 

 fertile. From Creemore to Avening, two or three miles north-east- 

 ward, the country is undulating and well cultivated, and at the latter 

 place an individual was interviewed who is of local notoriety as a 

 cultivator of the honey-bee, and who bore the appropriate name of 

 Honeywood. This individual, who seemed in quite comfortable 

 worldly circumstances, informed us that his bees had scarcely come 

 up this season to the average yield of honey, and out of the hundred 

 colonies in his possession not a single successful swarm had come 

 off during the summer of 1895, which was characterized by a number 

 of unusual traits as to temperature and scantiness of rainfall. 



During the hour of our evening's detention at Avening we heard 

 several rifle cracks in an adjoining piece of woods, and presently two 

 young men emerged one of whom was carrying the bodies of three 

 ruffed grouse in his left hand. 



