CHAPTEE XII. 



Land opposite Quebec. — Its quality and value. — Reserved rents consi- 

 dered oppressive. — Few immigrants into this region. — Roman Catho- 

 lic seminary at Quebec. — Professor Horan. — Self-sacrifice of the 

 teachers. — Falls of Montmorenci. — The natural steps. — Ice cone of 

 Montmorenci. — Sun-setting on Quebec. — RelatiA'e proportions of the 

 different sects in Quebec. — Comparative commercial prosperity of 

 Montreal and Quebec. — Autumn around Quebec. — Fires in the city. 

 — Journey down the St Lawrence. — Price of land and labour at St 

 Michel. — Flat lands of St Thomas, " the granary of the lower dis- 

 trict." — St Roque des Annais. — Long fanning streets. — Upper Bay of 

 Kamouraska. — Mode of drying grain. — Price of farms. — College of St 

 Anne. — Rapid increase of the French Canadian population.— Early 

 nmrriages of the French population. — Healthiness of the chmate. — 

 Comparative births and deaths in Lower Canada and in England. — 

 Corn-mills. — Kamouraska. — Riviere-du-Loup. — Comfort.able hotel. — 

 Village of Du Loup, and its future prospects. — High-road to New 

 Bniuswick. — Active Canadian horses. — Cacona.— Country apparently 

 thickly peopled. — Great extent of wild forest-land in these lower 

 counties. — Large families of the Canadian peasantry. — Subdivision of 

 farms. — Poor and difficult land on which they settle. — Resemblance 

 of the poorer habitants to the poorer Irish. — Desire to build fine 

 houses. — Extensive mortgages. — Wages of labour in the Rimouski 

 district. — Longitudinal valleys parallel with the St Lawrence. — Pecu- 

 liai'ity of the bog-earth in North America. — Difficulty in finding 

 quarters at Rimouski. — Irish landlord.— Scottish settlers at Mitis. 



Friday^ September 28. — After breakfast the weather 

 improved, the sun shone brightly through the clouds, and 

 I was able to walk out into the strong city and citadel of 

 Quebec, where every gun and every soldier calls up the 

 memory of the immortal Wolfe. The place is certainly 



