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In 1830, Canada imported of British munufactiires, in 

 value as under 



(.'otton. Linen. Silk. Woollrn. Iron. 



£544,110 £(»7.4C8 £95.772 £:h'9,59« £111,C0S 



Total £1.1 18,55-i. 



Mc Culloch says, that in the year ISHD, the total valiio 

 of imports into Canada from al! parts was £2,l'J7,l.i74, 

 of exports £1.090,3:^7; the Colony in 1^41 had 4H2 ships, 

 the tonnajre of which was 53,' 12. 



Tlie value of ashes, grain and timber (the most impor- 

 tant articles of Canadian product;) exported in lS3f), was 



Aslips. Oniiii, lOct. Tinibrr. Totul. 



£142,457 £32.05'> £bS0.403 £l,U5l.f)l2. 



In Upper Canada there were in 1841, 'J804 mills, of 

 which 414 were for corn. Of manufactories there were 

 22 iron works, 10 iron hammers, (i nail factories!, 147 

 distilleries, 9(i breweries, 1*61 tanneries, 1021 pot and 

 pearl ash manufactories. Woollens for domestic pnrpose.s 

 are munufactured throughout the province, lu iHl'i 

 -were manufactured 433,537 yards of fulled cloth ; ICG,88'i 

 yards of linen, cotton, and other thin cloth; 727,2^8.^ yard.^ 

 of flannel or other woollen cloth not fulled. Wool 

 1,30-2,5101 per lbs. 



The great shippin*^ ports of Canada are Quebec and 

 Montreal. Quebec is situated about 340 mites from the mouth 

 of tbe St. Lawrence, and in 1842 had a population of 31,801). 

 It is the capital of Canada and of the Kritish possessions in 

 North America. Moj)treal is the second town of Canada, 

 and is situated on the St. Lawrence about 180 miles from 

 Quebec. The population in 1842 was 40,203. Vessels of 

 (500 tons burden ascend here. Toronto, the capital of Upper 

 Canada is near the head of Lake Ontario. 



IlIVERS, LAKF.S, AND CANALS. 



The rivers of Canada are very nnmcrotis and spread over 

 the country like the arteries and veins of the human body, 

 and are the channels tliroiifih which the trade of tbe 

 country (lows. The principal rivers are the St. Lawrence, 

 the Ottawa or Grand River, the Gatineau, the Saguenay, 

 the St. Maurice or Three Rivers, the Champlain, the 

 Chaudiere, the Richelieu, and the Montmorency, Of 

 these it is unnecessary here further to notice more than two 

 or three. The St. Lawrence is a river of magnitude 

 scarcely to be conceived by an Englishman who has not 

 "seen the world." In length it nearly ecpials any river on 

 the habitable globe, and perhaps in magnificence and beaiity, 

 surpasses every other. It rises in the great basin of Lake 

 Superior, in Upper Canada. Its course to the sea is nearly 

 3000 miles, the width varying from more than that of the 



