SKETCHES

OF

UPPER CANADA.

UPPER CANADA,

DOMESTIC, LOCAL, AND CHARACTERISTIC:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

PRACTICAL DETAILS

FOR

THE INFORMATION OF EMIGRANTS OF EVERY CLASS;

AND SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

BY JOHN HOWISON, Esq.

SECOND EDITION.

"In vain does the imagination try to roam at large amidst cultivated plains, for every
where the habitations of mankind oppose its wish; but in this desert region the soul
delights to bury and lose itself amidst boundless forests it loves to wander, by the
light of the stars, on the borders of immense lakes-to hover on the roaring gulf of
terrific cataracts-to fall with the mighty mass of waters-to mix and confound itself,
as it were, with the wild sublimities of nature."-Chateaubriand.

EDINBURGH;

PUBLISHED BY

OLIVER & BOYD, HIGH STREET:

AND G. & W. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE,

LONDON.

1822.