s.d.  L. s. d.
100 acres, at 2 0 per acre, ann. rent 0 10 0 and no more.
  " 3 6 " " 0 12 0 "
  " 5 0 " " 0 18 0 "
  " 6 3 " " 1 4 0 "
  " 7 6 " " 1 10 0 "
  " 8 9 " " 1 17 0 "
  " 10 0 " " 2 5 0 "
  " 11 3 " " 2 12 0 "
  " 12 6 " " 3 0 0 "
  " 13 9 " " 3 7 6 "
  " 16 3 " " 3 15 0 "
  " 17 6 " " 4 2 6 "

The rent is payable on the first day of February in each year, full power being reserved to the settler to purchase the freehold, and take his deed for the land he occupies, at any time during the lease, an arrangement, of course, saving all future payment of rent.

Many persons unacquainted with the country, might object to pay from twelve shillings and six pence to twenty shillings for the Company’s lands, when they see that the Government price on the wild lands belonging to the Crown, in most townships, is only eight shillings per acre.

However, they must recollect, that all the choice lands belonging to the Crown have long since been located; and unless the emigrant is prepared to go back into the remote townships, he cannot expect to get land as good as that belonging to the Canada Company.

Indeed, the only Crown-lands which could at all compete with the Company’s lands are the townships lately surveyed north of the Huron track to the River Saugeen, and the new settlements of Owen’s Sound and the Queen’s Bush.

In a report, drawn up and published by Daniel Lizars, clerk of the peace for the united counties of Huron, Perth, and Bruce, May, 1851, he says,—­

“In this favoured portion of the province of Upper Canada, blest with a salubrious climate and a fertile soil, watered with crystal springs and brooks in every direction, reposing upon a table-land whose natural drainage flows uninterruptedly onwards to the streams and great rivers which intersect it in every quarter towards the noble Huron, or Lake St. Clair, the energies of the people have been steadily devoted to practical progress and improvement; having, in the short period above alluded to, brought upwards of eighty thousand acres of the wilderness into cultivation, erected five thousand dwelling-houses, fifty-six schools, fourteen churches, twelve grist mills, with nineteen run of stores, five oat and barley-mills, five distilleries, two breweries, eight tanneries, and twenty-four pot and pearl-ash factories.”

“Among other matters which crowned their industry in 1850, I may state the following productions:—­