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a has been so well applied that the improvements made are of the greatest public benefit. Upon the whole, the roads through the Province are much altered for the better, and are still improving. In answer to the second part of the query, the Gananoque River is navigable for boats and rafts, about forty miles from the mouth, emptying into the St. Lawrence at the Village of Gananoque. This navigation is impeded by several falls and rapids, of the falls and rapids mentioned, are of such a nature that it would not be attended with very heavy expense (considering the length of navigation), to remove the present difficulties, at least in a great measure. A partial improvement could be made by constructing four dams and as many aprons or runways at the different falls and rapids; by this means, boats could be hauled up by a simple machinery by water, and rafts and boats would pass down with safety. An improvement of this sort is estimated at £2,000 currency. obtained, it would still be more to advantage to improve the navigation effectually by good locks and canals. These would be also required in four different places ; the probable expense would amount to £5,000. The benefits which the country would derive from these would, we presume, be incalculable, opening an easy water communication between the River St. Lawrence and the fine and extensive settlements of Bastard, Crosby, Kitley and even to within two miles of the Rideau water, on which the new settlements of disbanded soldiers and emigrants are forming. An omission relative to roads being made above, it may be supplied here. A public road is laid out from Gananoque to Perth upon Tay and the new settlements in those parts, going through about the centre of Leeds, crossing the Gananoque, and in several places passing near that river. This road is already cut through as far as the back road to Kingston, and when finished will be essentially beneficial to these parts of the Province. There are several good beds of gravel in this Township, and when that article is deficient, either lime or sandstone abounds. We trust the period is not far distant when these materials will be applied, and, in consequence, good roads run through the Province. 31st. The impediments to the growth, etc., etc., of our settlement doubtless is the want of men and money, and we verily believe that a competent knowledge of the local situation and real advan_ Europe (particularly throughout the United KingEten) would immediately remove all such impediis 1 J hg > Ss a = ‘es s =o = 7 1 . | bill da tal ha ő yr. ule “a, SES 1 y 7 k : "| — . k ; : A 4 a eek, ~~ } a ee ee ie een hee ke ee el ek oon.” 5 a ments and operate materially to the harmony and strength of the whole empire. And probably this remark may apply to the Province generally. JOEL STONE, J. P. T. F. HowLAND, GEORGE EBBERSON, WILLIAM STURDIVANT, SAMUEL BEARMAN, GEORGE WILKISON, TRUMAN Hicock, J. P., THOMAS EMERY, NEAL McMULAN, EPHRAIM WEBSTER, JOHN Brownson, CHARLES MCDONALD, Joun S. MCDONALD. It is related that Colonel Joel Stone at one time offered a bounty of $1ro for every wolf shot in the settlement ; 25 cents for a crow’s head, provided it was shot on the east side of the river, and 20 cents if killed on the west side. It is unnecessary to state that not a single crow met its death on the west side. Among the first settlers of the village, was James Rodgers, a young Scotch boy. In 1824, the McDonalds, together with Colonel Stone, had secured the Sir John Johnston grant. In 1824, the settlement had grown to such an extent that the McDonalds had the place surveyed and laid out asa village, the lots on Main Street (60x120 feet) being valued at $50 each. The first wheat raised in the vicinity of Gananoqne was in the summer of 1827. owned by the McDonalds. 3,000 bushels. For many years the place was very unhealthy, fever and ague prevailing in consequence of the swamps surrounding the settlement. In 1826-7, the malaria fever nearly deciminated the settlement. Six out of the McDonald household died. Business was suspended, and most of those who were able left the place. In 1832, ship building was commenced in the village by the construction of the Zrogwozs, built expressly for running the rapids. Statistics of Gananoque, taken by Ephraim Webster, in January, 1849: Families, 125; male heads of families, 113 ; female heads of families, 12. The crop aggregated Adult population—males..........000005: i2.hozbetusbs Females. «.o.0.ce.csesie sic sét eává ery y: Children’....0sece0s va Feet evens genie ave @cecccees soon gaa Total .acsesess csnde teh eee teas is ő Fiat 768 Of these, 316 are fathers and sons ; 312, mothers and daughters ; 38, male servants ; 47, female servants ; 46, male boarders; and 9 female beets = k 7 ai / ő aa (A hez Ti — 7 i = LJ 7 a a s ú i x i ‘ jr aj ‘ ia heal : Ni £ zal a a! i j s a DD iat i látam Soh ÖL exert Oka ELIT ls lé a 78 oe ieee
