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149 to say, they are more inclined to industrial habits than they are to intelligence.

Sunderwich, a few miles from Windsor, has two thousand inhabitants; four hundred perhaps, coloured, they are mostly engaged in agriculture, though living in town; some own farms, others work by the-day in lumber yards sawing wood, others devote their time to gardening, which pays very well, and some few are grocers. They have a chapel but no school house, more for the want of teachers than otherwise. In the counties of Kent and Essex, which contain more coloured people than any other counties in Canada, they are prevented, by a legal enactment of the Provincial Parliament, from educating their children with the whites. They must, therefore, build their own school-houses, select their own teachers, pay half the salary of those teachers, and the Government the other half. The elevation of the Negroes under such inabilities can be but slow even in Canada.

Amherstburgh, sometimes called Malden, is situated on the banks of the Detroit river, 20 miles from the city of Detroit, about which I have previously spoken. This town has a population of about 2000, probably 800 of whom are coloured people. This place with others in this portion of Canada, is not so prosperous as some other portions, a great many of the French are settled here; in Lower Canada the French are very intelligent