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made up my mind to stay here, and recruit for a long 

 day on the morrow. I had soon a nice fire in a clean 

 room, and a well-arranged dinner-table before me ; and 

 I felt very grateful to the good people of Quebec for the 

 summer patronage they bestow upon the place during 

 the season for bathing, since to a careful provision for 

 their wants I was chiefly indebted for the well-served 

 table and delightful night's quarters which I enjoyed at 

 this hotel. 



Oct. 3. — Du Loup, at the mouth of the river of 

 that name, is a village of about a thousand inhabitants : 

 it contains many good houses, a good hotel, and a 

 larger proportion of British settlers than any other 

 town in Lower Canada, with the exception of Quebec. 

 It owes its actual prosperity, and the promise of future 

 increase and importance, chiefly to its position. At the 

 mouth of a small river, it has a harbour into which 

 vessels can enter, and by means of which foreign trafiic 

 can be maintained. It is also at the end of the Grand 

 Portage, as it is called — the highroad between Lower 

 Canada and New Brunswick. The road to Canada, of 

 which I have already spoken — as commencing at Little 

 Falls, or Edmonston, on the upper St John River, in 

 Madawaska, New Brunswick — leads along the Lake 

 Temiscouata in a northerly direction, and reaches the 

 St Lawrence at Du Loup, a distance from Little Falls 

 of seventy-six miles. As the port not only of a large 

 district of Lower Canada, but also of the upper waters 

 of the St John River, and the more northerly portions 

 of Western New Brunswick, this little place, as the 

 population increases, and facilities of communication 

 extend, must constantly Increase In importance. At 

 present also it is, in the summer season, the resort of 

 sea-bathing parties from Quebec, whom the change of 

 air, the romantic scenery, the beautiful views of the 

 river St Lawrence, here upwards of twenty miles wide, 



