[* It is well knows that dry timber offers a greater resistance to the
electric fluid than the green.]

"We were at dinner," he said, "when the dreadful flash came which
shattered that tree. We were all knocked down by the shock, and
narrowly escaped being killed, not only by the lightning, but by the
pieces of timber which were, as you may observe, scattered in all
directions."

After a thunder-storm, attended by heavy rain, a substance very much
resembling sulphur is left floating on all the pools, which many people
believe to be sulphur. This, however, is quite a mistake, for it is, in
reality, nothing more than the farina from the cone of the pine trees.
I have observed this substance equally abundant on the Huron tract,
many miles from any pine grove. It must, therefore, from its lightness,
have been carried up into the air, from whence it has been beaten down
by the rain.



CHAPTER V.

CANADIAN HARVEST. -- PREPARING TIMBER FOR FRAME-BUILDINGS. -- RAISING
"BEE." -- BEAUTY OF THE CANADIAN AUTUMN. -- VISIT TO OTONABEE. -- ROUGH
CONVEYANCE. -- DISACCOMMODATION. -- LEARNED LANDLORD. -- COBOURG. --
OTONABEE RIVER. -- CHURCH OF GORE'S LANDING. -- EFFECTS OF PERSERVING
INDUSTRY.

OUR harvest, with the exception of some late oats, was all carefully