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Exports front fhu Port of Hamilton^ for the years 1843 and 1844:
DESCRIPTION.
1843.
1844.
Flour, barrels
Pork, do
W 1) iskey.do
IJiittcr, ktgs
Lard do
Do. barrels
Wheat, bushels
Lumber (V)oards), feet
West ludia Staves, pieces
Pipe do. do
Beer, barrels
Apples, bushels
Ashes, barrels
Pot Barley, do
Oats, bushels
Stone, toises
Barley, bushels
Potatoes, do
Merchandise, cwts
Domestic Manut'nctures, cwts.
Other Merchandise, do.
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220
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42
181
267
270
60
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1172
1252
430
18430
329647
196245
3012
26
56
430
530
33
52
1007
6121
2255
Tolls collected at Burlington Bay, in the years 1843 and 1844 :
In 1843 £1986 9
In 1844 2933
Increase £946 10 10
HAMILTON.
A Township in the Newcastle District ; is bounded on the east by the township
of Haldimand ; on the north by Rice Lake, and a portion of South Lake ;
on the west by Hope ; and on the south by Lake Ontario. In Hamilton
49,599 acres are taken up, 21,527 of which are under cultivation. Rice Lake
occupies a large portion of the north of the township. The town of Cobourg is
situated on the lake shore, near the centre of the south of the township.
Hamilton is well settled, and possesses excellent farms. There are six grist
and seventeen saw-mills in the township.
Population in 1842, 4774.
Ratable property in the township, 84,274.
HARVEY.
k Township in the Colborne District; is bounded on the east by the township
of Burleigh; on the north by unsurveyed lands; on the west by Verulani;
and on the south by Smith and Ennismore. Harvey was originally well settled,
by emigrants from the old country, but finding the greater part of the township
unfit for cultivation, they left it, -and it is now almost deserted. Two hundred
acres only are taken up, forty of which are under cultivation. It is separated
from Smith and Ennismore by a chain of Lakes, a large portion of which
stretch across the centre of the township. There is a grist and saw-mill in the