bushels per acre, although there are many instances that the yield has been from 20 to 30 bushels per

acre.

26th. We have no regular mode of farming our land as to particular kind of grain, very little manure has as yet been wanted; but we find that plaster has a good effect upon our land, of which there is plenty in our country, within a few miles of our township.

27th. We frequently let out land to crop, on shares the terms generally are for the cropper to find team and seed, and to give his landlord onethird; of the winter crop, in stock in the field; the summer crop, if Indian corn, in the ear; if buck wheat, ready for the granary; if oats, in the sheaf; if potatoes, in the half bushel; but if the landlord find team and seed, he takes twothirds, and the croppers one-third.

28th. At our first settlement, wild land sold for 5s. per acre; at present the wild land in the unsettled parts of the township will sell for 10s. per acre; but there is wild land in the settlement that cannot be bought for 11. 5s. per acre; and some improved farms are held at 31. 15s. per acre, where there is not above 60 acres improved; but there have been actual sales of farms, from 11. 5s. to 31. 15s. per acre, according to the improvement made on them.

29th. There is not less than 57,000 acres of wild land now in the township for sale.

30th. In laying out the township into 200 acre lots, government has reserved five public roads

from north to south, and fourteen from east to west, each one chain in width, so that every 200 acre lot touches two of these roads, and every fifth lot touches three of them.

Statute labour is done on them as far as the settlement extends, and if it were settled, there soon would be good roads throughout the township, statute labour alone.

31st. In our most candid opinion there is nothing wanting, but the filling up with industrious men, men of property, monied men, men of enterprise, speculative men with capital, to make our township, our county, our district, one of the best countries for farming in all British America; and, lastly, could a liberal system of emigration be set on foot, and men of enterprise, skill, and capital, be induced to come among us, they would find a high rate of interest and substantial security.

TOWNSEND.

Dec. 6, 1817.

A Meeting having been recommended by the Magistrates of this Division, to consider of Mr. Robert Gourlay's Address, published in the Upper Canada Gazette of the 30th of October last, and reply to his Queries:

WE, the inhabitants (freeholders of the township of Townsend), have this day assembled at the house of Job Lodor, of the aforesaid township, and Morris Sovereene has been unanimously called to the chair, and the following answers to the queries have been adopted; the Chairman is requested to sign the same in the name of the meeting, and transmit it to the above magistrates, to be forwarded to Mr. Robert Gourlay.

9th. The soil is of a good quality, producing wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, buckwheat, peas, and potatoes in abundance. The surface of the earth is level and well watered.

10th. The timber is sugar maple, beech, oak, pine, bass wood, elm, butternut, white ash, hickory, and chestnut.

11th. Limestone abounds here, and is the principal stone made use of. There is one medicinal spring of considerable note. There has not been any quarries of free stone discovered as yet.

15th. The price of blacksmith's work is 7 d. per lb. for making all kinds of farming utensils, spikes, &c.

17th. The price of mowing grass for hay is 5s. an acre, for cradling and binding wheat, 6s. 3d. an

acre.

18th. The cost of clearing and fencing an acre of timbered land is 61. 5s.; of plains, 21. 10s. an acre.

25th. Pastures are good; an ox, of four years old, will weigh 700lb. by having a summer's run; In timbered land, after the timber is cleared off, the seed is harrowed in; but on the plains it is first ploughed.

26th. Manure is used for wheat and corn.

27th. When land is let on shares, the owner receives one-third of the produce.

28th. Farms, say one-fourth cleared, with a log house and barn, will fetch 11. 5s. an acre.

29th. There are about 20,000 acres of land now for sale.

30th. The roads are good.

31st. One great reason why this township is not more settled, is that a great part of the unsettled land was granted in large quantities to gentlemen, many of them residing in England and elsewhere, who do not wish to dispose of it. Another is the vast number of crown and clergy reserves, many of them situated in the very place, where, if they would be exchanged or sold, there might be a handsome village erected in a short time; and another is the want of cash, to make improvements with.

(Signed)

MORRIS SOVEREENE, Chairman.

WALPOLE AND RAINHAM.

Dec. 19, 1817.

A Meeting having been recommended by the Magistrates of this Division to consider of Mr. Robert Gourlay's Address, published in the Upper Canada Gazette, of the 30th of October last, and to reply to his Queries:

WE, the inhabitant householders of the townships of Walpole and Rainham, have this day assembled at the house of Abraham Hoover, of the aforesaid township, Mr. Abraham Hoover being unanimously called to the chair, the following Answers to the Queries have been adopted, and the chairman is requested to sign the same in the name of the meeting, and transmit to the above Magistrates to be forwarded to Mr. Robert Gourlay.

9th. The soil is chiefly clay, with a rich surface. 10th. It abounds with most kinds of timber.

The most abounding is oak.

11th. No ore has as yet been discovered. There are three sulphur springs.

12th. Plenty of limestone can be had at the quarry for 10s. per toise.

17th. Three shillings and ninepence per day is allowed for cutting grass for hay; and the price of reaping and cradling wheat per day is equal to the price of a bushel of wheat.