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_Journey from York to Coburg-Mail Waggon-Mr Somerville-Agricultural Notices-Clay Kneading-Female Helps seating themselves at Table-Port Hope-Coburg-Agricultural Notices-Fast Eating-Excursion to Peterborough-School-fellow-Peterborough-Rice Lake-Notices of Nature and Agriculture-Settlers-High Price of Land-Injudicious Settlement-Bay of Quinte-Indian Settlement-Canada Thistle-Kingston-Storekeepers and Store-pay-Grasshoppers-Lake of the Thousand Isles-River St Lawrence._
My friend D -- and I left York at 5 P. M., on 16th July, by the Kingston mail, an open waggon, drawn by two horses, and reached Windsor, a distance of twenty-nine miles, at two in the morning. The roads were worse than any yet travelled on, and a driver stopped two hours at a hotel notwithstanding our anxiety to get him away.