llows:--"The Oxley hounds had a splendid run on Friday last;" after
describing the country they passed through, the paragraph ended with,
"We regret to say that Mr Douglas Campbell, of Wexton Hall, received a
heavy fall from his horse, in clearing a wide brook. He is, however, we
understand, doing well." The letters from Montreal, were, however,
important. They communicated the immediate departure from that city of
four families of emigrants, who had accepted the terms offered by Mr
Emmerson, and were coming to settle upon Mr Campbell's property. They
also stated that the purchase of the other six hundred acres of
contiguous land had been completed, and sent the government receipts for
the purchase-money.

The news contained in this letter induced Mr Campbell to send a message
to the Commandant of the fort, by Captain Sinclair, acquainting him with
the expected arrival of the emigrant families, and requesting to know
whether he would allow a party of soldiers to assist in raising the
cottages necessary for their reception, and begging the loan of two or
three tents to accommodate them upon their arrival, until their cottages
should be built. The reply of the Commandant was favourable, and now
all was bustle and activity, that, if possible, the buildings might be
in forwardness previous to harvest time, when they would all have ample
occupation. Indeed, as the hay-harvest was just coming on, without
assistance from the fort they never could have got through the work
previous to the winter setting in, and it would have been very
inconvenient to have had to receive any of the emigrants into their own
house.

The sites of the four cottages, or log-huts, were soon selected; they
were each of them nearly half a mile from Mr Campbell's house, and
while some of the party, assisted by a portion of the soldiers, were
getting in the hay, the others, with another portion, were cutting down
the trees, and building up the cottages. In a fortnight after they had
commenced, the emigrants arrived, and were housed in the tents prepared
for them; and as their labour was now added to that of the others, in a
short time everything was well in advance. The agreement made by Mr
Campbell was, that the emigrants should each receive fifty acres of
land, after they had cleared for him a similar quantity; but there were
many other conditions, relative to food and supply of stock to the
emigrant families, which are not worth the while to d