21 Farmers, 19 Wives, 51 Children,-in all 94 Persons.

Wife and 3 children, father and mother.

Wife and 5 children.

The above Table was made out by me when travelling through the country, and I left schedules to be filled up in Norwich, and on the Talbot Road, which will be found in their proper places. This table exhibits a settlement just beginning. They mark the progress of some years of improvement.-R. G.

Ditto.
Canada,

9 ditto. Lifetime.

Wife and 5 chil.

United States.

23 years.

The fees were lately raised from 91, 7s. 6d. to this sum.

OXFORD.

At a Meeting of the Resident Landholders of the Township of Oxford, held at the School-house on Wednesday the 24th day of December, 1817, for the Purpose of taking into Consideration the Propriety of answering certain Queries proposed in an Address to the Resident Landowners of Upper Canada, published in the Upper Canada Gazette in October last, and signed Robert Gourlay; Peter Teeple, Esq. in the Chair.

It was resolved unanimously, That we conceive it proper to answer the same, and that the following answers to the Queries, as they come in order, be given.

9th. Soil, a dark loam surface; level, and extremely well watered.

10th. Timber-maple, beech, elm, pine, cedar, oak, cherry, ash, basswood, and butternut.

11th. Abundance of limestone: a sulphur spring.

12th. None.

21st. Ordinary time of turning out beasts to pasture, first of April; and taking them in, 1st December. 22d. Sleighing, two months; ploughing commences 1st of April.

23d. Wheat sown in September, and reaped in August.

25th. Pasture good; an ox will gain one fourth in a summer's run; quality of the dairy produce is good.

26th. First crop wheat: second Indian corn, or oats: land stocked with grass, with the oat crop, and with rye after the corn. When broken up from grass, wheat or peas: no manure has been applied.

27th. Land sometimes let on shares; the owner of the land receives one third of the crop in the field when harvested.

28th. A two hundred acre lot, with thirty acres cultivated land, a log house, and frame barn, 30 by 40 feet, is worth £500.

28th. Greatest part of the land in the township for sale.

30th. Roads tolerably good; can be much improved at a moderate expence; conveyance by water down the river Thames; the north-east branch of the river passing through the township. The navigation of the river is capable of improvement, by removing some obstructions, and deepening the channel in some places.

31st. We conceive that a want of persons of ability to purchase the lands in the township, and becoming actual settlers, is what principally retards the improvement of the same.

It is unanimously agreed, that the Chairman do sign the proceedings of this day, and transmit the same to Mr. Gourlay.

BLENHEIM AND THE FIRST CONCESSION OF BURFORD.

9th. Sand and loam, with some good clay; a good soil.

10th. Beech, maple, oak, hickory, and good pine mixed with other, as elm, bass, and white ash of the maple, sugar is made, of which one man will make 5 cwt. in six weeks.

11th. Minerals none, except a few limestone on the surface.

12th. None discovered as yet.

18th. New land 31. 15s. per acre; the first crop generally pays it.

21st. Middle of April, turn out; take into barn 1st of December.

22d. Sleighing two months; ploughing commences 20th of April.

23d. September, sowing; reaping in August. 25th. Quality good, suppose one-fifth or onesixth ; 2d. one cow will make three quarters of a pound of butter per day.

26th. To clear and fence, three years crop: from grass, one-third for land, manure applied for none; not being wanted.

27th. Some let for the half; the owner finding

team.

28th. Drawn from government at first; price from 10s. to 15s. at this time-Farms at 31. 15s. per acre; or, 21. with log buildings.