2 ST. PAUL'S. 



Fort Garry, on Lake Winnepeg, so we agreed to join company 



for so long as it suited us, and I will call them M and 



C in the following pages. 



The incidents of one passage are very much like another, so 

 I will say very little of this one. We had the usual hetero- 

 geneous collection of passengers, and the usual sweepstakes 

 each day as to the run of the ship, and also a rather unusual 

 one, and that was, as to which foot the pilot would place on the 

 deck first when he came on board, there being intense excite- 

 ment when he stopped on the ladder to speak to the captain. 

 The usual whales and icebergs were seen ; but nothing of any 

 interest occurred till we reached Quebec, where we landed, 

 having done the run in eleven days. 



We went to Russell's hotel and remained there two days, 

 visiting the citadel, the heights of Abraham, &c., and left on 

 the third day for Toronto, where we had some friends. 



From Toronto we did not stop again till we reached St. Paul's, 

 now a city of more than four hundred thousand inhabitants ; 

 but then it was- only a straggling town of four or five thousand, 

 most of the houses being built of wood, and many of logs only. 

 Here the railway then ended, and we had to travel by Bur- 

 bank's coach to Georgetown, on the Red River, a distance of 

 four hundred and twenty miles, where we should find a small 

 steamer bound for Fort Garry. 



The scenery round St. Paul's is very fine, the city standing on 

 the banks of the Mississippi River, which are here about two 

 hundred feet high, and the country round being hilly and beauti- 

 fully wooded, and containing some of the loveliest lakes in the 

 world, surrounded by woods, and so clear that you can see the 

 pebbles distinctly at a depth of twenty-five or thirty feet. 



