[2] Now removed to Kingston, though some of the courts of law still remain at Toronto.
[3] The notes thrown together here are the result of three different visits to the Credit, and information otherwise obtained.
[4] In this river the young sportsmen of the family had speared two hundred salmon in a single night. The salmon-hunts in Canada are exactly like that described so vividly in Guy Mannering. The fish thus caught is rather a large species of trout than genuine salmon. The sport is most exciting.
[5] Among the addresses presented to Sir Francis Head in 1836, was one from the coloured inhabitants of this part of the province, signed by four hundred and thirty-one individuals, most of them refugees from the United States, or their descendants.
[6] Near this place lived and died the chief Red-jacket, one of the last and greatest specimens of the Indian patriot and warrior.
[7] That is, the better class of them. In some parts of Upper Canada, the stage-coaches conveying the mail were large oblong wooden boxes, formed of a few planks nailed together and placed on wheels, into which you entered by the windows, there being no doors to open and shut, and no springs. Two or three seats were suspended inside on leather straps. The travellers provided their own buffalo-skins or cushions to sit on.
[8] From its resemblance in form to a shoe, this splendid flower bears every where the same name. The English call it lady's-slipper; the Indians know it as the moccasin flower.
[9] The average produce of an acre of land is greater throughout Canada than in England. In these western districts greater than in the rest of Canada.
[10] Of the commuted pensioners, and their fate in Canada, more will be said hereafter.
[11] When I remonstrated against this name for so beautiful a stream, Colonel Talbot told me that his first settlers had found a kettle on the bank, left by some Indians, and had given the river, from this slight circumstance, a name which he had not thought it worth while to alter.