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WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA. 



Travellers have already filled tlie world with descrip- 

 tions of the bold and sublime scenery from Lake Erie 

 to Quebec : — 



" The fountain's fall, the river's flow, 

 The woody valleys, warm and low 

 The windy summit wild and high, 

 Roughly rushing to the sky." 



And there is scarce one of them who has not described 

 the achievements of former and latter times, on the 

 different battle-grounds. Here, great Wolfe expired. 

 Brave Montcalm was carried, mortally wounded, 

 through yonder gate. Here fell the gallant Erock ; 

 and there General Sheaffee captured all the invaders. 

 And in yonder harbour may be seen the mouldering 

 remnants of British vessels. Their hour of misfortune 

 has long passed away. The victors have now no use 

 for them in an inland lake. Some have already sunk, 

 while others, dismantled and half-dismasted, are just 

 above the water, w^aiting, in shattered state, that 

 destiny which must sooner or later destroy the fairest 

 works of man. 



The excellence and despatch of the steam-boats, 

 together with the company which the traveller is sure 

 to meet with at this time of the year, render the trip 

 down to Montreal and Quebec very agreeable. 



The Canadians are a quiet, and apparently 

 dians^ ^ -^^PPy People. They are very courteous 

 and affable to strangers. On comparing 

 them with the character which a certain female traveller, 

 a journalist, has thought fit to give them, the stranger 

 might have great doubts whether or not he were 

 amongst the Canadians. 



Fortifications Montreal, Quebec, and the Falls of Mont- 

 at Quebec. morency, are well worth going to see. They 



