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Two Thousand Miles On An Automobile

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THROUGH CANADA HOME
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If, however, anything should occur which would make it desirable to leave or sell the machine in Canada, a re-entry at full market valuation should be made immediately, otherwise the machine is--very properly--subject to confiscation.
Parties running across the river from Buffalo for a day's run are not bothered at all.

The officials on both sides let the machines pass, but any one crossing Canada would better comply with all regulations and save trouble.
It was six o'clock when we arrived at St.Catharines.The Wendell Hotel happens to be a mineral water resort with baths for invalids, and therefore much better as a hotel than most Canadian houses; in fact, it may be said once for all, that Canadian hotels, with the exception of two or three, are very poor; they are as indifferent in the cities as in the smaller towns, being for the most part dingy and dirty.
But what Canada lacks in hotels she more than makes up in roads.
Miles upon miles of well-made and well-kept gravel roads cross the province of Ontario in every direction.

The people seem to appreciate the economy of good hard highways over which teams can draw big loads without undue fatigue.
We left St.Catharines at nine o'clock Sunday morning, taking the old Dundas road; this was a mistake, the direct road to Hamilton being the better.

Off the main travelled roads we found a good deal of sand; but that was our fault, for it was needless to take these little travelled by-ways.

Again, out of Hamilton to London we did not follow the direct and better road; this was due to error in directions given us at the drug store where we stopped for gasoline.
Gasoline is not so easily obtained in Canada as in the States; it is not to be had at all in many of the small villages, and in the cities it is not generally kept in any quantity.


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