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year : in the summer time it is furnished with 

 four good horses quite in the English st3^1e; in 

 the winter the body of the coach is placed on 

 a sledge, and drawn by the same number of 

 horses, in which season it performs its journey 

 somewhat quicker; it conveys six passengers 

 inside, with a proportion of baggage, &c. The 

 charge by this conveyance is a trifle more than 

 by posting, but the accommodation is certainly 

 superior at the different stopping places, where 

 refreshments and other conveniences of an inn 

 are always to be obtained in a very good style. 

 Since the year 1812, two steam-boats have been 

 launched upon the St. Lawrence, and during 

 the summer tiuie there are two of them con- 

 stantly navigating between Quebec and Mont- 

 real ; they are fitted up with great attention 

 to the ease and comfort of the public. A cabin 

 passenger, with sixty pounds of luggage, pays 

 £3 to Montreal ; but from thence to Quebec 

 only £2 : IO5. : Od., the expense of the table 

 therein included : steerage passengers pay 155. 

 each way : extra luggage is paid for at the rate 

 of one penny a pound. The voyage down the 

 river is performed in forty-eight hours; but 

 going upwards it is some hours longer, on 

 account of the strong currents. The smallest 

 of these boats measures one hundred and ten 

 feet in length, by tw^enty-eight in breadth, 



