prepared to go back into the remote townships, he cannot expect to get
land as good as that belonging to the Canada Company.

Indeed, the only Crown-lands which could at all compete with the
Company's lands are the townships lately surveyed north of the Huron
track to the River Saugeen, and the new settlements of Owen's Sound and
the Queen's Bush.

In a report, drawn up and published by Daniel Lizars, clerk of the
peace for the united counties of Huron, Perth, and Bruce, May, 1851, he
says,--

"In this favoured portion of the province of Upper Canada, blest with
a salubrious climate and a fertile soil, watered with crystal springs
and brooks in every direction, reposing upon a table-land whose natural
drainage flows uninterruptedly onwards to the streams and great rivers
which intersect it in every quarter towards the noble Huron, or Lake
St. Clair, the energies of the people have been steadily devoted to
practical progress and improvement; having, in the short period above
alluded to, brought upwards of eighty thousand acres of the wilderness
into cultivation, erected five thousand dwelling-houses, fifty-six
schools, fourteen churches, twelve grist mills, with nineteen run of
stores, five oat and barley-mills, five distilleries, two breweries,
eight tanneries, and twenty-four pot and pearl-ash factories."

"Among other matters which crowned their industry in 1850, I may state
the following productions:--

Wheat . . . . . 292,949 bushels.
Barley . . . . . 13,012 "