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swamp, with its multitude of tapering trees, but, 

 upon closer inspection, the eye is delighted with 

 the magnitude and beauty of the shipping which 

 crowds the port. Some of the finest vessels 

 that plow the ocean are here to be found. On 

 entering on my work, I met with no difficulty in 

 interesting the minds of the citizens in my sub- 

 ject. They turned out nobly to my public exhi- 

 bitions, and rewarded my exertions by giving me 

 a large and interesting class. 



Leaving Quebec about the middle of May, I 

 ascended the St. Lawrence as far as the beauti- 

 ful town of Brockville, exhibiting at many towns 

 on my way. Here I determined to forward my 

 horses and stock by rail to the city of Ottawa, 

 the capital of the Dominion and the seat of 

 government, where annually the assembled wis- 

 dom of the country meet to legislate for the 

 great Canadian Dominion; nor need one cross 

 the ocean to the mother country, nor even visit 

 the adjoining republic, to meet with both orators 

 and statesmen, many of whom grace the Cana- 

 dian Parliament, the halls of which often ring 

 with eloquence, as, in the discharge of their re- 



