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we come into the open country and the first ranges of Ste. Blaudine, a 

 parish situate nine mik's in rear of Rimouski and of very inferior appear- 

 ance when compared with the splendid farms we saw some time before 

 at Ste. Angele. 



Here ends my report as regards this portion of the interior of the 

 county of Rimouski, I will take the lib,'rty of adding one more word in 

 conclusion and I address it especially to you, whose ever active patriotism 

 promises before long to renew the surfac. of the country and to fulfill its 

 destinies which have long been foreseen, but which have been mauy times 

 delayed. 



"When we shiill have constructed, between the county of Bellechasse 

 and Lake Temiscouata, a railway which will afterwards bt.' continued to 

 Matane and connect at that point with the Baie des Chaleurs Railway, and 

 when, starting from Gaspe, we shall have built a railway around Graspe- 

 sia, touching at Matane and liually joining the Intercolonial, we will have 

 surrounded the whole lower half of the southern portion of our Province 

 with a collar of iron more precious than all the collars of pearls and dia- 

 monds, which will be the wealth of many and at the same time a great 

 work accomplished by a Grovernmeut alive to the importance of its mission 

 and having the will to accomplish it. 



I remain. 



Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) Arthur Buiks. 



Rimouski. 15th September, 18!t0. 



