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significant fact that in Ottawa all the public buildings 

 found in English cities exist, all but one and that is 

 the poor-house. 



Man seized upon that beautiful work of nature, the 

 Cliaudiere falls, and turned it into a ten million horse- 

 power saw-mill. The beauty of the fall is much impaired, 

 but it is a wonderful sight to see the logs drawn out of 

 the water by the water into twenty different saw-mills. 

 Each log is first squared by one saw, then cut into boards 

 by another. The rough edges are not wasted. Circulars 

 whirling round with inconceivable rapidity, rip them up 

 into thinner boards. Even the edges are utilized and 

 made into laths by a very ingenious process ; nothing is 

 wasted but the sawdust. 



As the Americans say, Ottawa possesses a first-class 

 water privilege. Each house has a hose with which the 

 doorsteps, pavements, windows, &c., are watered in dusty 

 weather. It speaks volumes for the steadiness of the 

 rising generation of Ottawa that to them these hoses are 

 generally entrusted. Fancy the English boy of ten in 

 uncontrolled possession of a water hose ! The child is 

 father to the man, and the colonial boy grows up a steady 

 and sober though somewhat phlegmatic man. Their edu- 

 cation makes men of them earlier than with us. They 

 begin from their earliest youth to incur responsibility. 



The public conveyances in Ottawa will excite the 

 wonder of the tourist. They are skeleton lord mayors' 

 coaches : silver springs, painted glass windows, oak facings, 

 huge crests in gaudy colours, &c., &c. The lumbermen 

 have a great weakness for these coaches, and spend many 

 of their hardly earned dollars in driving about the city in 



