FROM CA NA DA, WRITTEN DURING A RESIDENCE THERE IN THE YEARS 1806, 1807, AND 1808; SHEWING THE PRESENT STATE OF CANADA, ITS PRODUCTIONS-TRADE-COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE AND POLITICAL RELATIONS. ILLUSTRATIVE OF The Laws, the Manners of the People, and the Peculiarities of the Country and Climate. NOVA-SCOTIA, NEW BRUNSWICK, & CAPE-BRETON; AND Their increasing Ability, in Conjunction with Canada, fo furnish the necessary Supplies bf Lumber and Provisions to our PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORMT, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 1809. Snocida PREFACE The Author of these letters, from the nature of his pursuits in Canada, was led to direct his attention, in a particular manner, to the laws and the commerce of the country. In the investigation of its laws, ancient and modern, he became acquainted with the nature of the government; and in the views he took of its commerce,—the productions of the country, its commercial regulations, and political connexions in their different bearings, presented themselves to his consideration. Many important facts, and valuable commercial documents and calculations, relative to these interesting countries, were gradually collected and arranged. During his residence in Canada, and while travelling through it, the manners |