To show the British reader the importance of this work, connecting, as it does, with the St. Lawrence and Rideau Canals, the Atlantic Ocean, and Lakes Superior and Michigan, I shall, although contrary to a determination made to give nothing in this work but the results of personal inspection or observation, use the scissors and paste for once, and thus place under view a table of all the articles which are carried through this main artery of Canada, by which both import and export trade may be viewed as in a mirror, and this too before the canal is fairly finished. WELLAND CANAL. AMOUNT OF PROPERTY PASSED THROUGH, AND TOLLS COLLECTED. 1844. Beef and pork barrels, 41,976-1/4 Flour do. 305,208-1/2 Ashes do. 3,412 Beer and cider do. 50 Salt do. 213,212 Whiskey do. 931 Plaster do. 2,068-1/2 Fruit and nuts do. 470 Butter and lard do. 4,639-1/2 Seeds do. 1,429-1/2 Tallow do. 1,182 Water-lime do. 1,662 Pitch and tar do. 75 Fish do. 1,758-1/2 Oatmeal do. 132 Beeswax do. 36 Empty do. 3,044 Oil barrels, 96 Soap do. 13 Vinegar do. 24 Molasses do. 1 Caledonia water do. 10 Saw logs No. 10,411 Boards feet, 7,493,574 Square timber cubic feet, 490,525 Half flatted do. do. 13,922 Round do. do. 20,879 Staves, pipe do. 630,602 Do. W. I. do. 1,197,916 Do. flour barrel do. 130,500 Shingles do. 330,400 Rails do. 12,318 Racked hoops do. 59,300 Wheat bushels, 2,122,592 Corn do. 73,328 Barley do. 930 Rye do. 142 Oats do. 5,653 Potatoes do. 7,311 Peas do. 138 Butter and lard kegs, 4,669 Merchandize tons, 11,318 16