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it is -well lighted and kept very clean, full of bustle, life, 

 and activity — handsome equipages, gay dresses, and mili- 

 tary uniforms. Many rows of good houses are springing 

 up in the suburbs, and there is a look of solidity about 

 everything, pleasing to the English eye." A Yankee 

 having been asked his opinion of it, after having driven 

 through the principal streets, said, "Well, I guess it looks 

 Uke a city that was bought and paid for." 



The island of Montreal, on which the city stands, is about 

 thirty miles in length and from ten to fifteen miles in 

 breadth, the Ottawa river pouring its rich tides, freighted 

 with rafts of timber from the far interior on their way to 

 Quebec, there to be embarked for Europe along its northern 

 shores, and the bright St. Lawrence urging his pure and 

 sparkling waters along its southern banks. The whole of 

 this fertile island belongs to the seminary of the St. 

 Sulpicians, having been secured by the treaty of capitu- 

 lation. 



At six o'clock in the afternoon the steamboats leave 

 Montreal for Quebec. 



It woxdd not be right to pass the latter quaint and 

 ancient city without a few words. Its situation is exquisite, 

 the views from it are romantic and magnificent in every 

 direction ; that in which the fisherman's eyes will be most 

 frequently attracted, doivn the river, is grand and beautiful. 

 The views of Quebec as you approach it from any side 

 except the north, are almost unique, and very striking to a 



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