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Galt And Dunlop.

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John Galt was the manager of the Canada Company's lands, and he was a Scottish Novelist. Dunlop was at one time an eminent British Journalist, but he finally settled near Goderich. The town of Galt is named after John Galt.             John Galt and Doctor Dunlop witty             They located and planned the city             Of Guelph, and they cut the first tree down,             The stump was the centre of the town.             From thence the streets radiate like fan,             And they projected on this same plan             The towns of Stratford and Goderich,             The last it stands near broad Huron's beach,             Conspicuous on a bluff so grand,             'Neath which doth flow the clear Maitland,             Of glorious view you may partake,             Gazing on Huron's mighty lake.

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