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craft, which could be by such a communica- 

 tion conveyed immediately to the city. The 

 environs of Montreal exhibit as rich, as fertile, 

 and as finely diversified a country as can well 

 be imagined. At the distance of a mile and a 

 half from the town, in a direction from south* 

 west to north-east, is a very picturesque height, 

 whose most elevated point at the furthest ex* 

 tremity is about 550 feet above the level of the 

 river ; it gains a moderate height at first by a 

 gradual ascent, which lowers again towards the 

 middle, from thence it assumes a broken and 

 uneven form until it is terminated by a sudden 

 elevation in shape of a cone. The slopes on 

 the lower part are well cultivated, but the 

 upper part is covered with w^ood ; from seveml 

 springs that rise towards its top the town is 

 plentifully and conveniently supplied with 

 Avater, which is conveyed to it under ground 

 by means of wooden pipes. The summit, to 

 which there is a good road of very easy as- 

 cent, commands a grand and most magnificent 

 prospect, including every variety that can em- 

 bellish a landscape ; the noble river St. Lau- 

 rence, moving in all its majesty, is seen in many 

 of the windings to an immense distance ; on tha 

 south side the view is bounded by the long 

 range of mountains in the state of New York, 

 that is gradually lost in the aerial perspective. 



