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“ No. To the Canada Company.

“ I am desirous of locating myself under the Company, in their Huron tract, by purchasing acres, one hundred to be imme- diately abutting on the line of road leading from the township of VVilmot to the mouth of the River Maitland, and I will pay forthe same as follows :—

“ (Here state whether in cash, and how ; or in provisions and teaming, or in labour.)

“ My family consists of persons; my eldest child is years of age, and my youngest . I am a native of in ; by trade a . In my religion I am , and I am known to residing at .

“ N. B.——The applications are to be delivered in person, open, to the agents, viz :—

“ At Quebec, John Davidson, Esq. “ At Montreal, Messrs Hart, Logan, and Co. “ At New York, J. C. Buchanan, Esq. “ At Geneva, State of New York, A. M‘Nab, Esq.

“ Pultney Land Office.

“ Or, within the province of Upper Canada, to John Galt, Esq. superintendent for the Canada Company, York or Guelph.”

In alluding to the prosperity of new settlements, I might point . out many in Upper Canada, among which I_ do not know of any more deserving of notice than that of Perth, forty-two miles north of the St Lawrence, on the banks of the Tay; and those in the townships contiguous to it, the sites of which were in 1815 occu- pied by a gloomy forest of immense trees. The flourishing village of Perth, with many improving settlements, corn-fields, and mea- dows, now offer a more cheering and enlivening scene, and afford to man the articles that are necessary to support him in a comfort. able manner.

On the River St John, the Cardigan settlement of Welsh emi- grants is in a very prosperous condition; and the settlement of New Bandon, on the shores of the Bay de Chaleur, consisting of Irish families, associating together by a kind of mutual compact, has flourished as rapidly as any that I know of.

In Nova Scotia, the Scotch settlements on the East River of