of Smith with lumber.

I found several hundreds of Mr. Robinson's Irish emigrants camped on
the plains. Many had built themselves huts of pine and spruce boughs;
some with slabs and others with logs of trees. Three or four Government
store-houses and a house for the Superintendent, the Hon. Peter
Robinson, were in course of erection. I had letters of introduction to
that gentleman, and also to the Hon. T. A. Stewart, and Robert Reid,
Esq. The two latter gentlemen resided in the township of Douro, and
were at that time the only settlers in that part of Canada.

As I did not much like the appearance of the lodgings I was likely to
obtain in the new town, I went on to Mr. Stewart's house, and presented
my credentials. Nothing could have been more cordial than the welcome I
received from him. This gentleman and his brother-in-law, Robert Reid,
Esq., obtained a grant of land from the Colonial Government, on
condition that they would become actual settlers on the land, and
perform certain settlement duties, which consisted in chopping out and
clearing the concession lines.* Before the Crown patent could issue,
the party contracting to perform the settlement duties was obliged to
appear before a magistrate, and make an affidavit that he or they had
chopped and cleared certain concession lines opposite the lots of land
mentioned in the certificate.

[* Every township is laid out by the surveyor in parallel lines, sixty-
six chains apart. These lines are sixty-six feet in width, and are
given by government as road allowances, for the use of the public, and
are called concession lines. Cross lines run at right angles with the
former every thirty chains, and are called lot-lines: they subdivide
the township into two hundred acre lots: every fifth cross line is a