y, slimy consistence:
but," says the writer, "how poultry is dressed, so as to deprive it of
all taste and flavour, and give it much the appearance of an Egyptian
mummy, I am not sufficiently skilled in Transatlantic cookery to determine;
unless it be, by first boiling it to rags and then baking it to a chip in
an oven."

Chapter VI. relates to the _Soil_; in which are the following particulars
of Long Point:

"This country owes its settlement solely to the persevering industry of my
worthy and excellent friend, Colonel Talbot. Forty years ago, while
exploring the about-to-be province, on the staff of its governor, General
Simcoe, he was struck with the beauty and fertility of this tract; and
afterwards observing that, from the improvident grants of the colonial
government to friends and favourites, this fertile country, if left in
their hands, would continue for ages a howling wilderness, he procured
from the authorities at home an exclusive power of settling it. For this
purpose he set himself down in the very midst of the territory, without
another human habitation within fifty miles of him, and commenced his
arduous undertaking by cutting out roads, amidst much head-shaking from
the sage, and sneering from the ignorant. He however never was a man who
held as a part of his creed the wise aphorism, so often quoted in the
present day, '_Vox populi vox Dei_;' but held steadily on in the teeth of
opposition, vexation, and disappointment, until after about fifteen years
of unremitting labour and privation, it became so notorious in the
province, that even the executive government at York became aware that
there was such a place in existence as the Talbot settlement, where roads
were cut, and farms in progress:--and hereupon they rejoiced,--for it held
out to them just what they had long felt the want of,--a well-settled,
opened, and cultivated country, wherein to obtain estates for themselves,
their children, born and unborn, and their whole kith, kin, and allies.
When this idea, so creditable to the paternal feelings of these worthy
gentlemen was intimated to the Colonel, he could not be brought to see the
fitness of things in an arrangement which would confer on the next
generation, or the next again, the fruits of the labour of the present;
and accordingly, though his answer to the proposal was not couched in
terms quite so diplomatic as might have been wished, it was brief,
soldier-like, and not easily capable of mis