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pretty to look at, they were more adapted 

 for show than use, especially in such 

 rivers as we were likely to meet with. 

 The force of his reasoning was made mani- 

 fest within a week of the time, as the 

 sequel will shew. 



A party had been formed, some days 

 previously to my arrival, to " pic-nic" on 

 the banks of the river Jacques Cartier, 

 the most prolific of all the rivers within a 

 reasonable distance of the garrison of 

 Quebec. It is a broad, bubbling, impetu- 

 ous, rushing stream, tributary to that 

 queen of waters, the St. Laurence ; it 

 runs into this magnilicent river some six 

 and thirty miles above the capital of the 

 Lower Province. This was to be the first 

 piscatorial excursion of the season, and 

 great was the sport we anticipated. 



I was consigned to the care of the 

 Major, and towards the latter end of June, 

 in the year 1816, we left Quebec, soon 

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