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as the one we went to in Liverpool. You might almost
drive a waggon up the stairs, they are so enormously wide.
All the rooms correspond. You are waited on entirely by
colored people. The folks here have a greater horror of
Americans and Americanism than they have in England.
I expect jealousy has a great deal to do with this feeling
at least it must induce and cause it to a great extent.
The people here, the nobs and all sit on the door step
in the evening. I have this day seen some houses equal
to the one Aunt M lives in, a thoroughly noble looking
townhouse, and the inmates sitting in the cool in the porch or
portico. This looked queer, but you have no idea how
comfortable and pleasant it is, and you also can form no
idea of an evening in Canada, you never hear out here,
it is damp let us go in. To-day we called at the Canada
Company's house, and had papers and particulars of lands
they have for sale. On Monday we shall start at ½ past
7 o'clock to Niagara, look at the Falls, and a farm in the
neighbourhood, thence to Buffalo, and a long route
westward, which I shall describe as I go along. We saw
Mr. J. Marling this morning, and to-night he and Mrs. Marling
called on us. We shall learn a great deal from them.
Toronto is a fine city. At present it is the seat of Government