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What impressed the writer unfavorably was the fanatical hatred of the United States which marked Simcoe s otherwise generous and conservative views.

Despite the influx of Loyalists the province was even yet very sparsely settled, and those who had taken up lands were scattered all over its bounds, but chiefly in the west ern parts and particularly in the Niagara district.

A small tax on wines formed the only source of revenue at the dis posal of the Assembly and yielded somewhat less than five thousand dollars annually, out of which the Speaker and members of the Assembly drew their remuneration, the latter at the modest figure of two dollars per day of actual attend ance.

Rochefoucault commented upon the undeveloped resources of the province very enthusiastically, but deplored the scarcity of servants and laborers.

This latter he attrib utes to the fact that land was easily obtainable and immi grants naturally enough preferred to acquire and cultivate lands of their own.