142 JOURNEY FROM MONTREAL TO HAMILTON. 



CHPATER XVII. 



Journey from Montreal to Hamilton Separation of Friends Ri- 

 deau Canal Emigrants passing up the St Lawrence Massena 

 - Waddington Ogdensburgh Lake of the Thousand Isles 

 Andrew Dinwoodie, a Farmer from Dumfries-shire Live-stock 

 from England Innkeeper of Kingston Great Britain Steamer 

 Emigrant Passengers John By Steamer. 



HAVING long made up my mind to visit the western parts 

 of Upper Canada, and the confluence of the Mississippi and 

 Missouri, it was necessary to separate from my companion, in 

 whose company I had spent so many happy hours, and to 

 whose disinterested friendship I owe more than it will ever 

 be in my power to repay. It was arranged that he should 

 take my trunk and portmanteau to New York, to wait my 

 arrival there, having experienced the inconvenience of at 

 tempting to take luggage through a thinly-peopled district. 

 I reserved a plain suit of clothes, which had already become 

 shabby. Packing two shirts of cotton, and one of flannel, 

 five collars, five pair of cotton stockings, and a dressing-case, 

 into a small leathern cloak-bag which my friend had used for 

 buckling behind his saddle in Scotland, I left Montreal on 

 the 18th of August; having arranged to be at certain places 

 on fixed days, so as to reach New York in the first week 

 of November. My friend left Montreal some hours before 

 me, on a visit to New Glasgow, and, after seeing Quebec, 

 travelled by Lake Champlain to New York, and reached Eng 

 land on the 17th September. 



I was anxious to pass along the line of the Rideau canal, 

 so much praised by engineers, and sneered at by utilitarians, 

 and which nine-tenths of those best capable of judging of its 

 merits condemn as a lavish misapplication of national expen 

 diture ; but the irregularity of the conveyances by this route, 

 and my limited time, induced me to ascend the St Lawrence ; 



