5^ Easiei'H Townships. 



considerable stream of pleasure travel passes through it dur- 

 ing the summer months, — a daily stage connecting it with 

 Memphremagog, sixteen miles distant. The jail and court 

 house here are fine buildings, occupying a commanding site. 



The St. Francis River, which we touched on before at its 

 source in Lakes St. Francis and Aylmer, receives as tribu- 

 taries, before reaching Sherbrooke, the Salmon, the Eaton, the 

 Coaticooke, Massawippi, and Magog Rivers, and henceforth 

 assumes more of the character of a river winding on its 

 northward course through a lovely expanse of country to 

 empty its waters into the St. Lawrence, at the head of Lake 

 St. Peter. At East Sherbrooke its banks are sloping, of but 

 a slight elevation, clothed with rich meadow land, and skirted 

 by beautiful elms, overhanging the river side. As we follow 

 its course (and the railway runs beside it up to Richmond) 

 we here see a valley, whose fertility greatly contrasts with 

 the forest we have left. At certain points the level ground 

 is limited to the breadth of the road ; on one side we see 

 hundreds of feet below us ; on the other we are closed in by 

 a precipice high over our heads. Emerging from a defile 

 we come in full view of the^ river, on one side a farm-house 

 or little hamlet, on the other a cascade, a factory, or mill, 

 around which are tasteful dwellings, and frequently a pretty 

 village church. From its source to its termination it exhibits 

 one continued series of the most delightful and varied scenery. 

 No one who has ever seen it can forget the valley of the St. 

 Francis, yet among the numbers who yearly perambulate 

 Canada in quest of scenic beauty, how few visit this pictur- 

 esque spot. 



South of Sherbrooke some three miles is Lennoxville, 

 where the Massawippi joins its waters to the St. Francis, 

 and well known as being the seat of Bishops' College, the 

 Oxford of Canada, an excellent Episcopalian institution, pro- 

 vided with a staff" of thoroughly sound professors, both in 

 the college and grammar school attached to it, which may 



