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INDEX.
Farms near Coburg, 51.
Farms near the Grand River, 45.
Farina in New England, 13-15.
Farms in Pennsylvania, 129.
Farms, size of, 35, 36.
Farm-stock, sate of, near Montreal, 59.Fillibustering expeditions, 241.
Fire insurance in Canada, 48.
Fish, 96.
Flats of the Genesee, 28.
Flint corn, 81.
Florida, 187.
Florida, cotton produce of, 187.
Florida, Indian corn, 187.
Florida reefs, 188,189.
Florida, sugar-cane, 187.
Fly, Hessian, 100,101.
Forests, autumnal appearance of, 62.Forests of Canada, 39.
Forests, hickory and oak, 78, 79.
Forests of New England, 9, 10.
Forests of New York State, 29.
Forests of Ohio, 88.
Fort Jackson, 247.
Fowls, price of, in Cuba, 222.
Francis, Lake, 58.
Free and slave population, 286.
French cottages, Lower Canada, 64, 67.French settlers in Lower Canada, 58, 61,64, 65, 67.
Frosts, effect of, on cotton plants, 267.Frosts, effect of, on sugar-cane, 209,273.
Galena, 119.
Galena lead mines, 119,120.
Genesee flats, 28.
Genesee valley, 27-34.
Genesee valley, culture of Indian com,31.
Genesee valley, rent of wheat land, 31.Geneseo, 27, 29.
Geneva, New York State, 20.
Geology of the Carolinas, 169.
Geology of Georgia, 169, 298*
George, Lake, 18.
Georgia, 168-185.
Georgia, climate of, 185.
Georgia, geology of, 169, 298.
German settlers in the South, 284, 285.Gilmer county, 288.
Glen House, 9.
Glen House Hotel, 10.
Gorham Station, 8, 9.
Government offices in Cuba, 239.Governor-General of Cuba, powers of,239.
Grain, prices of, at Chicago, 115.
Grand River, 45.
Grand River, farms in the neighbour-hood of, 45.
Grand Trunk Railway, 58.
Granitic rocks, 53.
Grape, Catawba, 86.
Grass, Bermuda, 269.
Grass, bitter or black coco, 270.
Grass, Kentucky blue-stem, 81, 92.
Grasses, 91, 276, 299.
Grasses, natural, 28, 111, 150.
Grasses, Southern, 269.
Grasshoppers, depredations of, 75.Gravels, 56.
Great Western Railway, 59.
Guano, 134,165.
Guines, 192.
Guines, plain of, 193.
Gulf of Mexico, currents of, 243.
Gulf of Mexico, M northers ” of, 336-338.Gulf Stream, 187.
Gypsum, use of, as a manure, 25,42,100,270.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1.
Hall, Dr., geologist to the State of NewYork, 70, 72.
Hamilton, Canada West, 41.
Hancock county, 287.
Hare’s, Dr., queries as to the course ofstorms, 321.
Harrisburg, 128.
Harvesting on the prairie farms, 115.Havannah, 190-192, 198-203.
Havannah, American hotels in, 190.Havannah, cafes, 191.
Havannah, churches, 199.
Havannah, country to the south of, 193.Havannah, cow-milking, 223.Havannah, insecurity of life and pro-perty in, 202, 203.
Havannah, interest on loans, 215.Havannah, lotteries, 202.
Havannah, Paseo of Isabel, 191.Havannah, passports, 192.
Havannah, Plaza de Armas, 191.Havannah, restaurants, 191.
Havannah, spies in, 203.
Havannah, Sunday in, 198.
Havannah, theatre, 202.
Havannah to Natchez, Louisiana, 243.Hay, 28, 60, 92, 111, 124.
Hay, value of, in the Southern States, 271.Hemp, 146.
Herd of pigs, 79.
Hessian fly, 100.
Hickory and oak forests, 78, 79.
Hogs, fattening of, in Illinois, 116.
Hogs, fattening of, in Ohio, 79, 80.Hooker, Dr., on the influence of swamps,251.
Hope nurseries, 22.
Horan, Professor, 69.
Horizontal cultivation, 268, 300.
Horses, Cuban, 238.
Horses, Cuban, management of, 223.Horses in New York State, 23.
Hotels, American, Havannah, 190.Hurricane in Cuba in 1844, 359-363.Hurricane in Georgia and Carolina, 181.Hurricanes in the West Indies, 357, 362-366.
Illinois, 107-122.
Illinois, fattening of bogs, 116.