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Lawrence and its great lakes, and that the bold and successful 

 enterprise of deepening Lake St. Peter, has led to demands for 

 larger accommodation for shipping than she can now supply. 

 The manner in which the Harbour Commissioners of this city 

 have identified themselves with the commerce of the whole of the 

 St. Lawrence valley, is one of those large minded efforts that are 

 at once creditable and profitable, and, in the present report, we 

 have the broad views of the chairman, Mr. Young, as well as the 

 calculations of the Engineers. Others, we imagine, beside prac- 

 tical mercantile men, must regard with interest the curious calcu- 

 lations in this report of the shortest and cheapest way in which a 

 barrel of flour, from the new lands of the Yfest, can reach the 

 mouths of hungry artisans in the old world, whose children may, 

 at some future time, come out to swell the tide of Canadian popu- 

 lation, by the same route along which they now send the products 

 of their skilful and busy hands, to add to the comforts, and sus- 

 tain the labour of the settler. All honour as well as profit to the men 

 who thus plan and toil by developing the capabilities of our great 

 river, to make man a true citizen of the world, and to diffuse 

 through all lands, the rich bounties of Providence. 



For such effort, British America itself affords wide scope. In 

 the far East, the sealer of Newfoundland is battling with the Arc- 

 tic ice, and the fisherman preparing to realise his harvest from the 

 sea. Along the white shore of Nova Scotia the ocean is dotted 

 with sails hastening to the Labrador fisheries, and the coast .is 

 alive with busy preparations for the labors that are to make the 

 warehouses of Halifax groan with the treasures of the deep. In- 

 land, the farmer is mending his dyke, or ploughing his upland, or 

 pruning the interminable orchards of the Annapolis valley. Gyp- 

 sum is tumbling into the holds of ships along the shores of the 

 Bay of Fundy, and the coal miner has heaped up at Pictou, 

 Sydney, and Cumberland, the produce of his winter's toil in the 

 bowels of the earth. Farther west, in the forests of New Bruns- 

 wick and Canada, the lumberer has gathered from the banks of 

 innumerable streams, his rafts of timber and mill logs, which 

 thousands of mills are cutting into useful forms. Farther west 

 still, the miner of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior is laboriously 

 searching for or dressing his rich copper ores. Farther still, the trap- 

 per has collected his winter stock of peltries, in solitudes in which 

 even the sound of the lumberer's axe has not been heard. Over all 

 these broad regions, through 50 degrees of longitude, from Cape 



