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off his beauteous prize, and she became the
wife of Lieutenant Dixie to the chagrin of his
family the vexation of his mother and the
mortification of all the young men in the Principality

At the death of the old Baronet. Dixie
left the service and came out to this country as a
settler entered into negociation for the purpose
of Stamford Park the beautifully situated residence
of Sir Peregrine Maitland in the midst of the forest
of Niagara consisting of a small but elegant
villa with gardens and grounds laid out in much
taste commanding a distant view of Lake Ontario
which lies far off glistening in a radiance like
the reflection of a silvery mirror and this is
seen over the Niagara forest the tops of the trees
representing at once a sea nine miles in extent
the waves of which resemble the rich and varied
colours of a golden sea

Poor Dixie gave his bill for the amount
of the purchase money, two thousand pounds on
the Carmarthen Bank; by the time the bill was
presented that Bank had stopp'd payment
A second settler hearing that the purchase had not
been made good, upset farther negotiation by an
offer of five hundred pounds more, thus he closed
the bargain and got possession before Dixie could
look round

The trouble and disappointment occasioned
by a protracted litigation together