"En fro what partie of the earth that men dwell, outher aboven or benethen, it seemeth always to hem that dwellin there that they gow more right than any other folk."

SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE.

NOTES

ON

NORTH AMERICA

AGRICULTURAL, ECONOMICAL,

AND SOCIAL

BY

JAMES FW JOHNSTON

M.A., F.R.S.S.L. & E., F.G.S., C.S., &c.

READER IN CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM

TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLI