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CHAP. IV. 



HOW ARE WE TO GET TO THE EIVERS IN CANADA? 



UESTIONS on paper al- 

 ways presuppose the ex- 

 istence of an enquirer; 

 but in the present in- 

 stance it is not only ne- 

 cessary to suppose that 

 there is a person anxious 

 to ascertain how he is to 

 reach the Canadian rivers, 

 but that that individual 

 is in some particular 

 locality from whence he must set out ; and as we cannot do 

 better than place him in the centre of civilisation, we 

 shall consider him as making the inquiry from a friend 

 while sitting after a whitebait dinner at Greenwich. 

 Assuming the part of that friend, who of course knows 

 what he is going to talk about, and is besides judicious and 

 truthful, we shall offer a reply in very few words. On a 

 Friday morning, somewhere about the first of May, pack up 



