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Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) by Samuel Strickland
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leave Guelph for Goderich. -- Whirlwinds at Guelph and Douro

CHAPTER XVIII.
The Huron tract. -- Journal of Dr. Dunlop. -- His Hardships. -- I leave
Guelph for Goderich. -- Want of Accommodation. -- Curious Supper. --
Remarkable Trees. -- The Beverly Oak. -- Noble Butter-wood Trees. --
Goderich. -- Fine Wheat Crop. -- Purchase a Log-house. -- Construction
of a Raft

CHAPTER XIX.
My new House at Goderich. -- Carpentry an essential Art. -- American
Energy. -- Agreeable Visitors. -- My Wife's Disasters. -- Hints for
Anglers. -- The Nine-mile Creek Frolic. -- The Tempest. -- Our Skipper
and his Lemon-punch. -- Short Commons. -- Camp in the Woods. -- Return
on Foot. -- Ludicrous termination to our Frolic

CHAPTER XX.
Choice of a Location. -- The Company's Lands. -- Crown Lands. -- Tables
published by the Canada Company. -- Progressive Improvement of the
Huron Tract

CHAPTER XXI.
The King proclaimed in the Bush. -- Fete and Ball in the Evening. -- My
Yankee Fellow-traveller. -- Awful Storm. -- My lonely Journey. --
Magical Effect of a Name

CHAPTER XXII.
Visit of the Passenger-pigeon to the Canadas. -- Canadian Blackbirds. -
- Breeding-places of the Passenger-pigeons. -- Squirrels

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