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rout without taking the least notice of their fallen companion. In that neighbourhood many friends had sold their plantations, and had gone to reside in Upper Canada, where they had each a grant of 2 or 300 acres from the British Government, without fur- ther expense than the fees of office, which are very small, as already noticed. 12th Month, 23d. I came this day to Miller's Tavern, where, in the evening, I observed a hun- ter exercising himself in shooting at a mark, with his rifle gun. The mark at which he shot, was a lighted candle. The accounts that are given of the expertness of these shooters, are almost in- credible. Most of this day's journey was through a rough, stony country, very little of it being in a state of cultivation; but the sides of the mountains were mostly covered with the flowering laurel; and the streams of the Mahony were seen winding along the vallies. At the tavern where I dined, there was a hunter who, the landlord said, had shot one hundred deer that season. 12th Month, 24th. I came on with J. M. to a German tavern, about 6 miles from Hamburg, where we lodged. At this house I found but one person who could speak English, and he being out when I rose in the morning, I was unable to make the family understand what I said to them.