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looks like a dinner table laid out with white plates for 

 the guests : the neat houses of the islanders, fleck- 

 ing the shore. There, at a point known as the 

 " Observatory ", yawns at your feet, a deep crevice in 

 the soil, where the stream rushes past in a cascade. 

 Just descend the narrow, tortuous path, which leads 

 down to the dark abyss ; whip the pool with rod and 

 fly, and you will fill your creel with dozens of speckled 

 beauties. Several names are cut in the bark of the 

 surrounding trees ; I read, the initials of (Sir) E. P. 

 Tache and (Lady) S. Tache, with the date 1830. 



Further on, you meet a vale planted with fruit trees, 

 where wild violets and daisys are mirrored in sunshine, 

 in the wavelets of the crystal brook ; the latter seems 

 as if it wished to tarry a while in its course,to catch 

 the song of birds and the hum of grass-hoppers. This 

 happy valley — so congenial to the reverie of a student, 

 is styled at the manor ; " Le Vallon des Champs 

 Elyses," the Vale of the Elysean Fields. This is the 

 only locality, in this section of Canada, adds the abbe* ! 

 where I heard the chirp of this noisy summer visitant, 

 the grass-hopper." 



Let us now ascend, resting our wearied legs, after 

 such long and laborious rambles up to the gallery of the 

 Citadel. Here, a loud, an involuntary exclamation is 

 heard : admiration mixed with surprise ! 



Far away, in the distance eastward, the boundless 

 expanse of our majestic flood and its many isles, the 

 whole with the blue Alleghany Mountains as a back- 

 ground ". To complete this felicitous picture of a sunny, 

 modern Seisrnorial Manor, the abbe' adds his own 

 pleasant remembrance, of the interesting confabs and 

 walks he enjoyed at the gloaming, with his respected, 

 aged and cultured friend, the Hon. Marc. Paschal de 

 Sales Laterriere, the Laird of the Manor, who, he says, 

 on festive occasions, ordered out the seignorial coach, 

 drawn by a favorite white mare — " une blanche haque 



