64 SALMON FISHING IN CANADA. 



Society in this city is divided into as many cliques as 

 there are differences of origin, each keeping almost ex- 

 clusively to itself, mingling little with each other, with the 

 exception of some native Canadians of British origin, who 

 mix with all who will admit them to their houses, seldom 

 or never opening their own to receive any one, and having 

 few or no sympathies with any of them. 



The wharves of Montreal may well be objects of envy to 

 some of the first cities in the world ; they extend along the 

 magnificent St. Lawrence the whole length of the city, are 

 built of beautiful cut-stone, with fine broad slopes enabling 

 vehicles of all kinds to drive to the very gangways of the 

 ships and steamers which in summer assemble in great 

 numbers in their basins. The city itself is clean and 

 handsome and solid in appearance ; some of the public 

 buildings, such as the Market House, the French Cathedral, 

 the Montreal Bank, and the exterior of St. Andrew's 

 Church, being very handsome and striking. The French 

 Cathedral is said to be capable of accommodating a larger 

 number of persons than any other building on the continent 

 of America ; and certainly to see the crowd of worshippers 

 pouring forth from it at the conclusion of their prayers, 

 and filling to repletion all the streets which converge upon 

 it, is well calculated to give an idea of infinite numbers. 

 The lamented Elliot Warbiu-ton writing of Montreal says 



Eoman Catliolies, thus depriving the Clnireh of England of nearly half her 

 meniLers, and having made other mistakes. 



