these men, when at home, was a poacher, or had in his days infringed on
the game laws: "would a total repeal of the game laws produce anything of
a similar effect at home?"

Chapter V. relates to _Travelling and Communications_, with a few cookery
receipts of a London tavern, as frying beef-steak in butter; boiling green
peas till they burst, and serving them in a wash-hand basin; pickling
cucumbers, the size of a man's foot, with whiskey, and giving them a
"bilious, Calcutta-looking complexion, and slobbery, 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