Anthology and bibliography of Niagara Falls . ying place has severaleddies in it. Queenstown is a pleasant village of about sixteen or eighteenhouses. I stopped at Banisters, a civil man, from Massachu-setts. I got a pint of excellent port, which more majorum I findto be the fashionable wine among the Anglo Canadians. This is a place of trade, being the commencement of theportage round the falls. Banister pays about twelve shillingssterling a year for direct taxes of all kinds. The military andjudiciary are paid by the crown. Judge Hamilton, who diedlately, and had very large property, was ass
Anthology and bibliography of Niagara Falls . ying place has severaleddies in it. Queenstown is a pleasant village of about sixteen or eighteenhouses. I stopped at Banisters, a civil man, from Massachu-setts. I got a pint of excellent port, which more majorum I findto be the fashionable wine among the Anglo Canadians. This is a place of trade, being the commencement of theportage round the falls. Banister pays about twelve shillingssterling a year for direct taxes of all kinds. The military andjudiciary are paid by the crown. Judge Hamilton, who diedlately, and had very large property, was assessed at no imported goods come by way of Montreal. For tea theygive one dollar and a half per pound, loaf sugar three shilling(Newyork currency). For my wine he charged me five shillings,but it was good. At Batavia I got Mr. Ellicott to change myPennsylvania notes, for the notes current in Newyork state; butI found notes of no kind current in Canada. They trade for have no bank; and they dislike our notes. No wonder. 1200.
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