OF A VOYAGE TO, AND TRAVELS IN UPPER CANADA, WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE CUSTOMS, CHARACTER, AND DIALECT OF THE COUNTRY, ALSO REMARKS ON EMIGRATION, AGRICULTURE, &c., BY JAMES TAYLOR, CROWLE, LINCOLNSHIRE. HULL: PUBLISHED BY JOHN NICHOLSON, AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1846. PREFACE. In publishing a Narrative of my Voyages and Travels, (which I have undertaken to do, at the request of a number of my most intimate friends,) I have endeavoured to avoid giving a false bias to the minds of its readers. I have also endeavoured to divest my mind from prejudice, and to give a clear and impartial statement of all subjects on which I have treated. Having been upwards of Two Years in the United Canadas, and having devoted the greater part of my leisure time to obtain information; I have selected from what I have gained, subjects which I have thought would be the most interesting to my friends, and the public in general. Some of my readers will probably find the style I have adopted not exactly in unison with their taste; let me remind such persons, that a variety of minds require a diversity of subjects, and also different modes of expressing the same meaning, (or different styles); under |