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that tlie agent, J. Laird, Esq., may soon be enabled to put 

 another vessel on the same route. The following letter 

 gives much information and may not prove "unin- 

 teresting. 



"I send you my greetings from the Lower St. Lawrence, on 

 toy return from Chicoutimi, and the Rirer Saguenay, to Quebec. 

 As I glide onward, under the power of steam, against current, 

 and breeze, and tide, amidst a happy company of ladies and gen- 

 tlemen, and amidst s~cenery on which I could never be weary of 

 gazing ; the grand river, the shores, the sloping uplands, hills 

 peeping o'er hills, the distant mountains, — green forests, cultiva- 

 ted fields, villages, and churches, and white farm houses, and 

 neat country seats, thickly succeeding each other — Ships under 

 Sail with full spread canvass, some outward bound to ports be- 

 yond the seas, and others just coming in from beyond the broad 

 Atlantic — an occasional lighthouse, either floating or perched on 

 some rocky islet — and all these things, and innumerable others, 

 involved in alternate shadow and sunshine, as the rich fleecy 

 clouds flit across the heavens — all forming a gorgeously painted 

 ever-moving picture, whose magnificence and beauty no human 

 skill can pretend to emulate, — amidst such surroundings, I think 

 of you and other friends in Western New York, with a wish that 

 they too were here, to share the beauties of this scenery, and to 

 be partakers of my joy. 



" Before I left Rochester, on an excursion through Lake Ontario, 

 and down the St. Lawrence, I was advised not to let slip a fa- 

 vorable opportunity, if one should offer, after my arival in Que- 

 bec, for making a visit to the Saguenay, and looking formyself 

 upon the bold, rugged, and very remarkable scenery along its 

 rock-bound shores. Such an opportunity, fortunately, was not 

 wanting ; and after I had spent five days in Quebec — days of 

 great interest to me. — visiting places most deserving attention in 

 and about that wonderful city — famous in the world's history, 

 about which I had read, with thrilling interest, when I was yet 

 a boy, and of Wolfe climbing the heights of Abraham, to fight, 



