NOTES. 473 Montgomery and his brother, I have frequently had the opportu¬ nity of observing the industrious progress of an old man of the name of Sinclair. He was upwards of sixty years when I saw him beginning in the woods. His family consisted of his wife, and two grown-up daughters; one of the latter usually spent three-fourths of the year at service ; their means were limited, and they were obliged to live very frugally ; but their industry overcame every difficulty. Recollecting the place thickly covered with trees in 1820, I was charmed with its pretty improvements when I rode past it four or five years afterwards; and never did I observe more forcibly the effects of well-applied industry. A little farther on, near Sinclair's farm, a settler, who was for¬ merly a tenant on Major-General Stewart 's estate, Garth, in Perth ¬ shire, and who went to , recommended by this brave offi-< cer to Sir James Montgomery 's agent, has also made most ex ten-5 sive improvements. In the same settlement, a man of the name of Cairns, whom I observed the first year, with a rope over his shoulder, actually dragging after him the harrow which covered the seed, and who had at one time been in good circumstances in Dumfries¬ shire, but who arrived penniless in , told me, that after surmounting the difficulties of the first two years, he had lived bet¬ ter, and that he considered himself much more independent, than he ever did in Scotland . Mr Dockendorff , one of the most respect¬ able farmers in Prince Edward Island , with whom I have had frequent conversation respecting the condition of the inhabitants of the colonies, removed to it about forty years ago from the United States. He was then unmarried, and commenced clearing the farm which he now occupies, which was at that time covered altogether with trees that indicate a fertile soil. It is now one of the finest farms in . His house is large, handsome, and comfortable; nis baro, stable, &c., are commodious and well planned ; his farming implements are ever in the best order; his horses, cattle, sheep, &c, always in ex¬ cellent condition. He married, soon after he settled, a thrifty and worthy woman; and his family, whom he has brought up in a man- • ner highly creditable, are extolled for regularity of character, and habits of thrift. He has often observed to me, that all the poverty in the colony, and generally in , was nothing more nor