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Show TRAVELS TIIROUGII UPP · R CANADA: to lnvc larg~.,;r vcOcl , as their h::trbours arc all fo indifft.=rcnt, rcmai1L yet to be determined. The Luge I3riti(h vc..:flcls ply moflly between 1" ingfl: on an I Ni1gar::1, and but v ry r;ue y touch at any thcr place . The cxp ... ncc of builclin , and equ.ipping vcl1l:ls on Lal c Ontario, is very confi.dcr,lbl ; <lnd ·tis fldl rn.:.tter on the more difbnt lak<.s, as the brg~r part of the i1 on imp1cmcnts, and all the corLbgc w,mtcd for that purpofc, arc imported from Great Ht itain, th10ngh the medium of the lower province. Tl~.:re C<ln b no doubt, howcv r, but tl1at when the country is become more populou , :lll ~mpk ii1pply of thdc ncceDary arti -Jcs "'ill b rca lily pro ured on the fpot; for the foil of th upf cr province is well ;ubptcd to the gr \\th of hemp, and iron ore has be n difCc,vcrcd i11 many parts of the ountry. Ilcmp already b--gins to be ultivated in fmall quantities; but it has hitherto been the policy of government to dircet the :-tttcntion of the people to agriculture, rather than to any other puri"uit, fo that non of the iron mines, which, together with all other mines that arc, or that may hereafter be difcov red, arc the ,'clufive property of the crown, have yet been opened. Th:! people of the U nitcd States, however, alive to every profpeCt of gain, have already fent pcrfons to look f, r iron ore in that p:trt of their territory flt uated convcnien tly to the lakes. Thde pe1 fons ha vc been very fncce[sful in their .fl:arch s, and as worh will undoubtedly be efiablii11ed fpccdily by them in this quarter for the manufaCture of iron, and as they will be able to afford it on much better terms than that which i brought all the way from Lower Canad·1, it is probable that government will encourage the opening of mi11es in our own dominions, rather than fuffcr the people of the States to enjoy fnch a wry lucrative branch of trade as they mufl: necdlarily h<tvc, if the ftmc policy i pcrli fl:cd in which has hitherto been pu rfucd. Copper, in the more remote parts of Upper Can;da, is found in much greater: bundance th.m iron, an 1 as it 111ay be .:trac1cd from the earth :ith con1iderably kJ3 trouble than any of the iron or d at has yt.t been dtfcovcred, there is rcafon to imagine, th at at a future day it will be much more u.((·d th, n iron for every purpok to whi ·h it can he appli d. On the borders of a river, which falls into the fouth-wdl: iJ.Llc of Lake 8 Superior, C 0 P r E R 0 R E. up rior, virgin copper i, found in the grca tefl: abun ance; and on moft of the iflamls on the cafl:crn fide it is aHo fonnd. In the pofkilion of a cntlcman at N i<!ga r.1 I C1w a Jump of virgin copper of feveral oc~ 11 c, weight, app:1 tcnt1y as pure as if it l1ad paDcd tl1ough fire, which I was inf(mned lud bcu1 flrucl- c.ff with a L. )ifcl from a p; ·c<.: cclun!ly p 1rc, gr wing on one of thde ifl .md~;, which muft :tt k.d1 lu\'e wcighnl for:1 pounds. Rich v ·iilS of copper arc vil!ble in almofl: all th·.; H)ll ·.; 01 1 tl cfe iflands toward· the tl10 · · ; and copper n:, 1 cLmbLng copJX r.t~, is likewiie found in deep b d ncar the w1tcr: in a fc-,v h:)urs bat-.:.utx might here be filleJ with ore, and in Jc(.; tlun tim~.; cl.ly convey ·d to tLc Strait; of St. Mary, ~1ftcr patlinCl; whi<..h the ore might be laden on board br~c vdkls, and convtycd by watl:r withr)t lt any further interruption <lS i~ r as Ni;1g:lra Hiver. The p rta >c at the Straits of St. Mary may be paficd in ~, fCw hours, ancl with a f.tir wind hrgc ve1li.:ls .. pr per for trave1fing Lakes lluron :>nd Eri...:, mrty come down to the caflern extremity of the latter la ;:c in iix d.1ys. Not 011ly the builling and fittin 0 ollt of vd1ds on the bkcs i attended with conliJer.d k ·xp ·nc ', but t1 e cofl: f kcepin·~ them up is lik wife foun l to be very great, for th 'Y wear out trmch foon<x than vc!Tds employed c Jl uno 1ly on the oce..tn; which cir(nmfl:ance, acco ·ding to the opinion f the naval gentlemen on the bkcs, is owin r to the fr fhnefs of the water; added to this, no .Gtilors arc to b hired but at v~..ry hinh wage , and it is found neceflary to retain them at full pay du1 ing the five month of the year that the v fTels arc bid up on ace unt of th icc, a men cannot be procur d at a moment's notice. The f,1ilors, with a few exceptions only, ar.:: procured f10m fca ports, as it is abfolutely nccciEuy on thcfe lakes, the navigation of which i more dangerous th<tll that of the ocean, to have able and cxpcri need feamtn. Lake Ontario itfdf is never frozen out of fight of land, but its rivers and lurboms arc rcguLtrly blocked up by the icc. The day after that on which we reached Kingfton, we took our paffage for Niagara on board a fehooncr of one hundred and eighty t ns burthen, which was waiting at the merchant's wharf for a fair wind. The efiabliihcd price of the paffitge acrofs the lake in the cabin is two gumeas, |