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buildings, signs of art and industry, which strike the 

 traveller s eye, when, leaving Cronstadt behind, he 

 ascends the narrowing Neva. Yet, in some respects, this 

 view of the St John recalled to my mind some of the 

 points on the Russian river : though among European 

 scenery, in its broad waters and forests of pines it most 

 resembled the tamer portions of the sea-arms and fiords 

 of Sweden and Norway. 



I reached Fredericton about four in the afternoon, and 

 there found my conductor, besides making me pay very 

 high for his services, most anxious like so many others 

 of these provincial people to persuade me that lie had 

 done me a great favour besides, in bringing me, and 

 that I was obliged to him in a degree for which my 

 money was no compensation. He could have made 

 more at his ordinary occupation of serving writs and 

 seizing debtors, and it was only to oblige my friends he 

 had brought me at all. I could only regret that my 

 friends should have induced him to do what was so much 

 to his disadvantage, and assure him, that having paid his 

 exorbitant demand, I considered I had discharged every 

 sort of obligation I owed him. This sort of thing, in 

 one form or other, the traveller will often meet with in 

 all these new countries ; and not least frequently among 

 those who have still a trace of the Irish &quot; never went 

 to service at home, sir, 1 remaining in their heads. 



