Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Comparison Betiveen The Ancients And Moderns In Science And Literature.
I landed at New York , and came that route to Montreal , 400 miles , tolerable road and accommodations all the wai—any other than an Englishman , perhaps , mi g ht think them good . New York is" a large fine city , the finest port in all America ; and when a navigation often miles is completed , will have water carriage t Montreal , Quebec , & c . and communication with the great lakes , and down tho Mississiiquite to the Bay of Mexico . Lower Canadanear the
pp , , river , is well peopled and populous , almost all French . The island of Montreal is well cultivated , containing 60 persons to a square mile at least . Montreal is a large city , full of British merchants , who are in possession of most of the lucrative trade of Canada ; many live in . style , and are very rich . The ladies are handsome , lively , fond of
dress ,, dancing , & c . The houses , churches , & c . here are covered with tin , and when the sun shines look very'brilliant . The air , both winter and summer , is so dry and pure , that iron does not rust ; and the tin will lay and look bright a great many years . The houses are all of stone ; provisions very cheap and good , about one-third the price of England , except bread and butter , which is much the same ; no tyther , poor rateor taxes of any kind- except to mend the roads . The
, , relig ious here-are very charitable ; the nuns nurse all the sick poor , take all the illegitimate , children that are brought , and take care of them . The farmers are all French , very lazy and bad , yet live 011 their own land at ease ; they generally keep two pleasure carriages , ! one for summer , the other for winter to ride 011 the ice , and seem very
happy . The climate is cold , but beautiful sun-shine and dry , covered with snow all the winter , and very healthy . The summers are delightful ; fruits , melons , & c . grow to great perfection without grafting pr care , In short , this part of Canada is full of beautiful villages , each has a £ Ood church and priest , and are as much French as they were when first conquered . Unfortunately , some villains got among them with their equality , which caused some ferment ; but executing one of them , I hope , has put a stop to it . 1 am just returned from a three month's tour in Upper Canada ,
which 1 endeavoured to examine with a farmer s eye : it is above 1000 miles long ; width to the N . W . not defined . I think the climate and soil , without exception , the best adapted for the purposes of human life that can be : wheat , and every grain and vegetable , grow to more perfec-r tion than in England ; the mode of cultivating new land thus—girdle the large trees , that is , cut a notch in the bark all round , and cut some of the smallest off ; without plowing the land , sow three pecks of
wheat among the dead leaves , scratch with a harrow with wooden teeth ; this is repeated three years without plowing ; with the third crop of wheat sow clover and timothy grass , which will grow four feet hig h ; let this remain several years , till the roots and trees rot , and keep clearing and sowing fresh land every year . On rich land the trees are immense , walnut , chesnut , oak , hickeroy , pine , sugarmaple , which produces a sweetjuice , resembling the sugar-cane , from whence amazing quantities of sugar are manufactured , equal to "West India sugar . Melons , of several sorts , grow in fields without anv care ;
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Comparison Betiveen The Ancients And Moderns In Science And Literature.
I landed at New York , and came that route to Montreal , 400 miles , tolerable road and accommodations all the wai—any other than an Englishman , perhaps , mi g ht think them good . New York is" a large fine city , the finest port in all America ; and when a navigation often miles is completed , will have water carriage t Montreal , Quebec , & c . and communication with the great lakes , and down tho Mississiiquite to the Bay of Mexico . Lower Canadanear the
pp , , river , is well peopled and populous , almost all French . The island of Montreal is well cultivated , containing 60 persons to a square mile at least . Montreal is a large city , full of British merchants , who are in possession of most of the lucrative trade of Canada ; many live in . style , and are very rich . The ladies are handsome , lively , fond of
dress ,, dancing , & c . The houses , churches , & c . here are covered with tin , and when the sun shines look very'brilliant . The air , both winter and summer , is so dry and pure , that iron does not rust ; and the tin will lay and look bright a great many years . The houses are all of stone ; provisions very cheap and good , about one-third the price of England , except bread and butter , which is much the same ; no tyther , poor rateor taxes of any kind- except to mend the roads . The
, , relig ious here-are very charitable ; the nuns nurse all the sick poor , take all the illegitimate , children that are brought , and take care of them . The farmers are all French , very lazy and bad , yet live 011 their own land at ease ; they generally keep two pleasure carriages , ! one for summer , the other for winter to ride 011 the ice , and seem very
happy . The climate is cold , but beautiful sun-shine and dry , covered with snow all the winter , and very healthy . The summers are delightful ; fruits , melons , & c . grow to great perfection without grafting pr care , In short , this part of Canada is full of beautiful villages , each has a £ Ood church and priest , and are as much French as they were when first conquered . Unfortunately , some villains got among them with their equality , which caused some ferment ; but executing one of them , I hope , has put a stop to it . 1 am just returned from a three month's tour in Upper Canada ,
which 1 endeavoured to examine with a farmer s eye : it is above 1000 miles long ; width to the N . W . not defined . I think the climate and soil , without exception , the best adapted for the purposes of human life that can be : wheat , and every grain and vegetable , grow to more perfec-r tion than in England ; the mode of cultivating new land thus—girdle the large trees , that is , cut a notch in the bark all round , and cut some of the smallest off ; without plowing the land , sow three pecks of
wheat among the dead leaves , scratch with a harrow with wooden teeth ; this is repeated three years without plowing ; with the third crop of wheat sow clover and timothy grass , which will grow four feet hig h ; let this remain several years , till the roots and trees rot , and keep clearing and sowing fresh land every year . On rich land the trees are immense , walnut , chesnut , oak , hickeroy , pine , sugarmaple , which produces a sweetjuice , resembling the sugar-cane , from whence amazing quantities of sugar are manufactured , equal to "West India sugar . Melons , of several sorts , grow in fields without anv care ;