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particularly St. Paul s Street, in which a great deal of the 

 wholesale business is done ; the footways only three or four 

 feet wide. Some of the streets are tolerably well paved, 

 others roughly ; and M Adamising going- forward in some 

 of them. Houses are mostly of stone, neat, strong, and 

 capacious ; and if it were not for their high sharp tinned 

 roofs, would have much the appearance of a large town in 

 England. No private warehouses ; goods are landed on a high 

 made bank, and in some places on the beach of the river, 

 and then hauled up to the warehouses. The immense accu 

 mulation of ice in the winter, has carried away some ware 

 houses that had been built. Several vessels from Europe, 

 and steam-boats, are continually coming and going to va 

 rious parts up and down the river, and such is the opposi 

 tion by the two companies that run them between Montreal 

 and Quebec, that each has one boat that carries passengers 

 between the two places, 180 miles, in the cabin, and board, 

 for 7s. GcZ., and the deck passengers for 60?. each only ! The 

 most remarkable attraction in the place is the new Roman 

 Catholic Church, the largest in America, and not surpassed 

 in size by a great many in Europe, covering, it is said, an 

 acre of land, and accommodating 12,000 people. It is truly 

 a grand stone building, elegantly and substantially finished. 

 Sunday, Sept. 7. At the Catholic Church, about six or 

 seven thousand people. The sermon was in French ; con 

 gregation not large. I was also at the Episcopal church ; 

 small and neat ; no sermon. I also stepped into the 

 Methodist, and one of the Presbyterian meetings, which 

 were well built places, and had considerable congregations ; 

 shops all shut up, and no business going on. The first 

 settlers were of course French (belonging to France when 

 first settled), and a considerable portion yet remain so ; but 

 most of the merchants and traders are Americans and Euro 

 peans chiefly Scotch. The sides of the Canal locks, at 

 Montreal, are built of hard cut stone (got somewhere in the 

 vicinity); the bottoms are of the same material, and the 

 locks and the masonry excellent. Two large warehouses not 

 far from its outlet, and three or four windmills. The fond 

 ness of the French Canadians for windmills is rather re 

 markable, when the river St. Lawrence, for 100 miles up, 

 is full of rapids, and the water could easily be applied to 

 any kind of machinery, A remarkable high mountain at 

 the back of the town (Mount Royal, or Mont-re-all, as it is 



