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and the French Canadians are capital game for them. 

 To reach this race of men, they rarely come by the 

 remote route which these two were taking. By Lake 

 Champlain the road is shorter from New England, and 

 the heart of the country more easily accessible. While I 

 was on my short visit to St Hilaire from Montreal, two 

 of these experimenters approached the St Lawrence 

 through the eastern counties, by way of St Hyacinth 

 and the railroad. One of them, for two dollars, taught 

 how to convert a barrel of flour into a barrel of soap, in 

 ten minutes ! and the other sold, at a dollar a gallon, a 

 black varnish, which was the best in the world. We 

 are here in England as gullible as any nation on earth ; 

 but the guWers generally arise from among ourselves. It 

 may not be, therefore, that a better education would 

 protect the Lower Canadians much from this class of 

 impostors. They are far out of the world, and simple, 

 because they are so ; but education is a good thing in 

 many other ways, and it may be fairly tried as a giver of 

 greater practical wisdom too. 



Dixon himself drove me down the last eight miles to 

 the ferry, which I reached just as the twilight ended. 

 Half-an-hour more took me across to the town of Camp- 

 belton, where I arrived about 7 P. M., having finished 

 this journey in six days, as I hoped to do when I left 

 Quebec on Monday morning. Hotels are not abundant, 

 but I obtained tolerable quarters for the night ; and on 

 the following day, through the hospitality of my New 

 Brunswick friends, was provided with excellent accom- 

 modation. 



Monday^ Oct. S.^The only church at Campbelton is 

 a Presbyterian, and the clergymen being from home 

 yesterday, there was no service. I therefore walked up 

 the river two or three miles to AthoU House, where I 

 was induced to remain for a couple of days under the 

 hospitable roof of Mr Ferguson. To all who have ever 



