{"product_id":"2940016080673","title":"Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SECOND VOLUME.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturn to Toronto, after a flight to Lake Superior--Loons natural\u003cbr\u003eDiving Bells--Birds caught with hooks at the bottom of Niagara\u003cbr\u003eRiver--Ice-jam--Affecting story--Trust well placed--Fast Steamer--Trip\u003cbr\u003eto Hamilton--Kékéquawkonnaby, alias Peter Jones--John Bull and the\u003cbr\u003eOjibbeways--Port Credit, Oakville, Bronte, Wellington\u003cbr\u003eSquare--Burlington Bay and Canal--Hamilton--Ancaster--Immense\u003cbr\u003eexpenditure on Public Works--Value of the Union of Canada with\u003cbr\u003eBritain, not likely to lead to a Repeal--Mackenzie's fate--Family\u003cbr\u003eCompact--Church and Kirk--Free Church and High Church--The Vital\u003cbr\u003ePrinciple--The University--President Polk, Oregon, and\u003cbr\u003eCanada                                                              Page 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEkfrid and Saxonisms--Greek _unde derivaturs_--The Grand\u003cbr\u003eRiver--Brantford--Plaster of Paris--Mohawks--Dutch\u003cbr\u003eforgetfulness--George the Third, a Republican King--Church of the\u003cbr\u003eIndians--The Five Nations--A good Samaritan denies a drop of\u003cbr\u003ewater--Loafers--Keep your Temper, a story of the Army of\u003cbr\u003eOccupation--Tortoise in trouble--Burford                                51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoodstock--Brock District--Little England--Aristocratic Society in the\u003cbr\u003eBush--How to settle in Canada as a Gentleman should do--Reader, did\u003cbr\u003eyou ever Log?--Life in the Bush--The true Backwoods                     75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeachville--Ingersoll--Dorchester--Plank road--Westminster\u003cbr\u003eHall--London--The great Fire of London--Longwoods--Delaware--The\u003cbr\u003ePious, glorious, and immortal Memory--Moncey--The German\u003cbr\u003eFlats--Tecumseh--Moravian settlement--Thamesville--The Mourning\u003cbr\u003eDove--The War, the War--Might against Right--Cigar-smoking and all\u003cbr\u003esorts of curiosity--Young Thames--The Albion--The loyal Western\u003cbr\u003eDistrict--America as it now is                                          95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntense Heat--Pigs, the Scavengers of Canada--Dutch Country--Moravian\u003cbr\u003eIndians--Young Father Thames--Ague, a cure for Consumption--Wild\u003cbr\u003eHorses--Immense Marsh                                                  125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy Engineer-officers have little leisure for Book-making--Caution\u003cbr\u003eagainst iced water--Lake St. Clair in a Thunderstorm--A Steaming\u003cbr\u003eDinner--Detroit river and town--Windsor--Sandwich--Yankee\u003cbr\u003eDriver--Amherstburgh--French Canadian Politeness--Courtesy not\u003cbr\u003ecostly--Good effects of the practice of it illustrated--Naked\u003cbr\u003eIndians--Origin of the Indians derived from Asia--Piratical attempt\u003cbr\u003eand Monument at Amherstburgh--Canadians not disposed to turn\u003cbr\u003eYankees--Present state of public opinion in those Provinces--Policy of\u003cbr\u003ethe Government--Loyalty of the People                                  132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Thames Steamer--Torrid Night--\"The Lady that helped\" and her\u003cbr\u003eStays--Port Stanley--Buffalo City--Its Commercial\u003cbr\u003eProsperity--Newspaper Advertisements--Hatred to England and\u003cbr\u003eencouragement of Desertion--General Crispianus--Lake Erie in a\u003cbr\u003erage--Benjamin Lett--Auburn Penitentiary--Crime and Vice in the\u003cbr\u003eCanadas--Independence of Servants--Penitentiaries unfit for juvenile\u003cbr\u003eoffenders--Inefficiency of the Police--Insolence of Cabmen--Carters\u003cbr\u003e--English rule of the road reversed--Return to Toronto                 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEquipage for a Canadian Gentleman Farmer--Superiority of certain iron\u003cbr\u003etools made in the United States to English--Prices of Farming\u003cbr\u003eImplements and Stock--Prices of Produce--Local and Municipal\u003cbr\u003eAdministration--Courts of Law--Excursion to the River Trent--Bay of\u003cbr\u003eQuinte--Prince Edward's Island--Belleville--Political Parsons--A\u003cbr\u003eDemocratic Bible needed--Arrogance of American politicians--Trent\u003cbr\u003ePort--Brighton--Murray Canal in embryo--Trent River--Percy and Percy\u003cbr\u003eLanding--Forest Road--A Neck-or-nothing Leap--Another perilous leap,\u003cbr\u003eand advice about leaping--Life in the Bush exemplified in the History\u003cbr\u003eof a Settler--Seymour West--Prices of Land near the Trent--System of\u003cbr\u003eBarter--Crow Bay--Wild Rice--Healy's\u003cbr\u003eFalls--Forsaken Dwellings                                              205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProspects of the Emigrant in Canada--Caution against ardent spirits\u003cbr\u003eand excessive smoking--Militia of Canada--Population--The mass of the\u003cbr\u003eCanadians soundly British--Rapidly increasing Prosperity of the North\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Colonies, compared with the United States--Kingston--Its\u003cbr\u003eCommercial Importance--Conclusion                                      260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANADA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CANADIANS.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default 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