NOTES. 479 " 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 Wilmot to the mouth of the River Maitland, and I will pay for the 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 ; hy 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 Quebee, John Davidson , Esq. " At , Messrs Hart , Logan, and Co. " At York, J. C. Buchanan, Esq. " At Geneva, State of York, A. M 'Nab, Esq. " Pultney Land Office. " Or, within the province of Canada , to John Gait , Esq. superintendent for the Canada Company , York or ." In alluding to the prosperity of new settlements, I might point out many in Canada , among which I do not know of any more deserving of notice than that of Perth , forty-two miles north of the 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 nourishing village of , 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 John, the Cardigan settlement of Welsh emi¬ grants is in a very prosperous condition ; and the settlement of 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 of