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minds, fresh affections, and warm feelings, capable of 

 attaining worldly distinction In their several walks, of 

 enjoying the intercourse of social life, of being happy 

 in the exercise of domestic affections — laying down all 

 worldly hopes and prospects, and sacrificing themselves 

 to the duty of instruction. While I pitied, I could 

 not but respect the men — feel there was something In 

 them higher and nobler than had moved myself in my 

 struggles through life ; and wlille I almost felt indig- 

 nant at the inhumanity of a system which could exact 

 it, my heart warmed the more towards my friend Horan, 

 who had been able voluntarily to sacrifice himself to it. 



I know there are many mindless and heartless beings, 

 male and female, to whom such a devotion would prove 

 no sacrifice. I do not allude to such persons, nor to the 

 dry and unfeeling mummies into which the lapse of long 

 years of routine may convert even those who at first made 

 a true and priceful sacrifice. But 1 saw before me men 

 bright with intelligence, and with a capacity for appre- 

 ciating enjoyment still unseared ; and 1 could not but 

 honour them for their self-sacrifice, because I knew them 

 to be still human enough to feel that it was great. 



In the afternoon, I drove nine miles down the left 

 bank of the St Lawrence, to visit the Falls of Mont- 

 morenci. Though tlie quantity of water Avliich descends Is 

 insignificant after Niagara, and smaller even than at the 

 Grand Falls on the St John River, yet it descends from 

 a height of nearly 250 feet, and the place is well deserv- 

 ing of a visit. The edges of the highly-Inclined slate 

 rocks are overlaid by nearly horizontal beds of impure 

 thin limestones, which are cut through by the river, and 

 eaten back for several hundred yards from the St Law- 

 rence, till a hard metamorphic gneissoid rock has arrested 

 the cutting process. Over this the water at present falls. 

 Upon the horizontal beds is a deposit of 10 to 30 feet of 

 drift ; and upon this, adjoining the St Lawrence, at a level 



