29th. Not known; but we suppose all but what is now occupied; probably 50 lots not sold, except two-sevenths reserves.

30th. Roads good, for new; might be better by work; one small river for rafts.

31st. Not certainly known, but we suppose that land being not known where the owners are, and there not being any highway tax on non-resident lands to be paid in the town, or the land to be sold. The above answers given by a general meeting, holden on Dundas street, in Blenheim, and signed by us, being landholders in said places first mentioned, this 2d day of December, 1817, and by our Chairman,

At a Meeting of the principal Inhabitants of Burford, and the Gore of Burford, assembled for the purpose of answering certain Queries, proposed by Mr. Gourlay, respecting the general and particular State of the said Township.

LIEUT.-COL. WILLIAM D. BOWEN, Chairman.

8th. One fulling mill, one carding machine, 6d. per lb. for carding.

9th. The township of Burford and the Gore, has a level surface, interspersed with useful streams and springs, the water very fine. The soil a sandy loam, fertile and durable.

10th. Timbered with sugar maple, beech, white pine, white, black, red, chesnut, &c. oak, white and red elm, basswood, butternut, white and black ash, hickory, chesnut, cedar, &c.

11th. An indication of iron ore has lately been discovered, on a branch of the Grand river, that runs through the township: no other minerals have yet been discovered.

12th. Stone scarce, and none fit for building.

15th. Four blacksmiths, who charge for shoeing a horse 12s. 6d. for an axe 12s. 6d. for a scythe 8s.9d. There are two tailors, who charge 27s. 6d. for making a coat, and 10s. for pantaloons: two shoemakers, who charge 3s. 9d. for making a pair of shoes: five carpenters, charge 10s. per day and found.

25th. The pasture is capable of great improvement. A cow is estimated to give one lb. of butter and two of cheese per day.

26th. Wheat is the first crop put on new lands, afterwards Indian corn, rye, oats, peas, flax, potatoes, &c. Plaster of Paris is used as a manure for clover, on the plains, one bushel of which is sown per acre, and the ordinary crop of clover is three tons per acre; little other manure is used.

27th. Land is let out to no great extent, new

land on the plains is let for the halves, the person who takes it, to be at half of the expense of clearing, fencing, ploughing, and harvesting. It (the crop) is divided in the sheaf. On improved lands, if the owner finds team, plough, board, and lodging, the workman has one third of the crop, divided in the sheaf.

29th. The quantity of land for sale within the township unknown, and the owners of the soil generally unknown to the inhabitants.

30th. The roads on the plains generally good, and made at a small expence. In the wood lands, they are capable of great improvement, which might be accomplished at no great expence.

31st. The principal cause affecting the prosperity and growth of the township, is considered by the inhabitants at this meeting, as resulting from the quantities of land granted to non-residents, and the great number of reserved lots; these reserves being scattered all over the township, not only preclude the compact settlement of the same, but materially affects its settlement in general; as the purchaser of a lot, if he is not so fortunate as to procure one handy to the roads already made, is under the necessity of making them, through perhaps several reserves, and the lands belonging to people that reside in other parts of the world, thereby enhancing their value at a great individual expence.

We consider that good English farmers, mechanics, and labourers, if they could obtain lands in this township, and all the crown and a proportion of the clergy reserves, sold or given to actual set

tlers, would be an object of great importance to the further improvement and growth of this township.

Signed, in behalf of the Inhabitants, by

WILLIAM D. BowEN, Chairman.

Burford, 5th Dec. 1817.

WINDHAM.

SIR,

MR. ROBERT GOURLAY.

HAVING received a circular letter, with your signature, directed to the Collector and Town Clerk of the Township of Windham, requesting a reply to each query set forth in your address, we therefore subscribe to this our reply, and consider ourselves answerable for whatever is advanced.

3d. We have no church or chapel in the township, but most of the houses are open for preaching. There is one professional preacher of the Presbyterian order, and there are itinerant preachers of the Methodist order, that preach once in two weeks, in different parts of the township, and sometimes we have Baptist preaching.

4th. We have no medical practitioner in the township, but we can generally get one within eight or ten miles.

5th. We have two schools, we board the teachers, and give them 121. 10s. per quarter.

6th. We have two small stores; but we can be

supplied with goods from the neighbouring townships.

7th. We have no taverns; but we profess to be a hospitable people, and do entertain strangers.

8th. There are a number of good mill seats in the township, but the parts where they lay are unsettled, and those parts that are settled lay near the settled parts of other townships that have mills.

9th. The general character of the soil is loam and sand, without gravel or stone, and the surface level in a general way, without high hills or bad swamps, except about 1000 acres near the middle of the township, which may in time become the best part of the township, by ditching and clearing off the timber; perhaps there is not over 200 acres that is not covered with timber in this swamp.

10th. The timber on the high dry lands is mostly oak, pine, and chesnut; on the low moist lands, beech and maple, elm and ash, and almost every kind of timber that the country affords.

11th. No minerals have as yet been discovered in the township; there is excellent iron ore in the adjoining township of Charlotteville.

12th. There is but one place in the township where building stone has been discovered, but it is not settled near the place, so that it is not much used.

24th. We sow one bushel of wheat per acre in the good season for sowing, in the late season we sow a few quarts more; and if the ground is in good order for sowing, it will average 15