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wooden furniture to the woods of Upper Canada is as "coals to Newcastle." The black walnut makes handsomer furniture than mahogany, and does not so easily stain, a property which saves much scrubbing and not a little scolding in families. In clothes, boots and shoes are most u...
"Very erroneous notions are current in England with regard to the taxation of the United States. The truth is, that though America is lightly taxed in comparison with England, i...
5. Chapter VI. relates to the _Soil_; in which are the following particulars"This country owes its settlement solely to the persevering industry of my worthy and excellent friend, Colonel Talbot. Forty years ago, while exploring the about-to-be province...
1. Chapter II. details preparations for emigration. Carrying heavy lumberingwooden furniture to the woods of Upper Canada is as "coals to Newcastle." The black walnut makes handsomer furniture than mahogany, and does not so easily stain, a property whic...
2. Chapter III.--_What is to be done on landing at Quebec?_ If you are a richman, see sights; if you have not money to throw away, do not stay one hour in Quebec, or in any other town, longer than you can possibly avoid, "but get your luggage on board th...
3. Chapter V. is devoted to _Field Sports in Canada_, and explains the choiceof dogs and guns, and the varieties of game. It notices the remarkable fact--that, notwithstanding 15,000 English agricultural labourers have arrived in Canada within the last t...
4. Chapter V. relates to _Travelling and Communications_, with a few cookeryreceipts of a London tavern, as frying beef-steak in butter; boiling green peas till they burst, and serving them in a wash-hand basin; pickling cucumbers, the size of a man's f...
6. Chapter VII. describes the operation of the _Lumber Trade_, which has been"A person, possessed of little or no capital and inflated with the spirit of speculation, hires a number of hands, and purchases a quantity of provisions (on credit), and betake...