han a
quarter of an inch in thickness.

The people of Canada, who are called Canadians, are rather
industrious; they make very fine fans, they hunt, fish, and collect
sugar from a tree called the Sugar maple. Their houses are built of
stone, and are plastered, but seldom are higher than one story, except
in the towns, and are made very warm by means of stoves. The furniture
is usually made by the Canadians themselves, and is exceedingly
simple.

The chief article of food is peas soup, with a small piece of pork
boiled in it, and a dish of thick sour milk. The women and children
scarcely ever drink other than milk and water, but the men are
particularly fond of rum.

Winter lasts six months, during which time the greater part of the day
is devoted to amusement, principally dancing. Most of the women can
read and write, but the men can hardly do either; and the manners of
both are very gay and light. There are a few lead mines in Canada, in
which silver is also found. Their exports are timber, furs, potash,
grain, and pearl-ash.

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Australia has also sent her contributions to the Exhibition. Among
them are specimens of the skins of animals, dried plants, fine woods,
and other things.

In Australia, there are scarcely any extensive manufactures, but the
natives make some useful things, from the various and curious trees
which abound. For instance, they form the most durable furniture and
weapons from the casuarina or club tree; they make cloth from the
finest bark of the paper-mulberry tree, and cord from a peculiar kind
of flax. There are sago and cocoa trees, which grow to the height of
one hundred and fifty feet, and are thirty feet round. Figs, lemons,
oranges, sugar-canes, gum-trees, bread-fruit, and a kind of pepper,
from which a drink, called ava, is made, are very useful to the
natives. There are mines of a very rich quality, but they are as yet
scarcely attended to. The original natives are very idle, and not very
well off; those who live near the sea shore, catch fish; and those in
the woods, eat such animals as they can get; or climb up trees, for
honey, squirrels, and opussums.

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The settlers, who are the people who have gone out from England and
other countries, to dwell there, live in a very comfortable manner;
they have large farms, with flocks of sheep and herds cattle, fields
of waving corn, rice, and wheat; pretty huts, or shanties, as they are
called, and a profu