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Falls of Niagara —Canada "West —Mode of Inarming —Short Wheat Crop.— 

 Average Prod-ace —London — Pnce of Land —Climate.— Diseases produced 

 "by Malaria — Eich Lands more subject to them than poor.- Proposed Route to 

 British Columbia —Red River and the Yalley of the Saskatchewan.— The 

 Hudson Bay Territory —Alleged Fertility of the Country —Failure of the 

 Selkirk Settlement —Plague of Grasshoppers —Mr Kitson's Account of the 

 Settlement on Red Rivei —Policy of Abandomng that Countiy to Canada.— 

 Probable Over-estimate of its Value 



Towards evening tlie tiain landed us at Magara, but we 

 caught no sign, eitlier by sound or siglit, of the great Falls till 

 we found ourselves seemingly close in front of them at the Clif- 

 ton House Hotel. The doors and windows of this hotel shake 

 day and night, though it is really a mile distant from the Falls, 

 and the sound seems no greater when you are close beside them 

 than it is here. Following Sidney Smith's example at Wood- 

 houselee, I pinned or wedged my door and window with com- 

 plete success, then took a moonlight view of the Falls, during 

 which we had the good fortune to see a lunar rainbow. After 

 a two-mile walk to the suspension bridge, I regret to be obliged 

 to confess that my first impression was one of disappointment 

 The country is tame and flat though wooded, and the river 

 leaps from this flat info a deep gorge, on which you look down, 

 instead of finding yourself in a valley /rom which you might 

 look up. During the night you are roused by a sound like a 

 fearful storm, but it continually changes, and presently you 

 migM in^agine ttat you were close to 1000 raflway engi.es 

 blowing off their steam. How eagerly one springs up to get 

 the first view in the morning sun I 



