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and commodiously accommodates fifty cabin 

 passengers, with separate apartments for ladies, 

 beds, &c. : the other is of greater capacity, 

 being one hundred and forty feet by thirty-two. 

 This mode of traveUing is easy, and exceedingly 

 pleasant : a liberal table is provided, with every 

 other means of rendering the passage quite a 

 party of pleasure. Mr. Moulson, of Montreal, 

 i« the person who has embarked a large capital 

 in this undertaking, and it is pleasing to find 

 that his enterprise has been productive of con- 

 siderable profit to him ; he has been counte- 

 nanced in his plan by the provincial legisla- 

 ture, but has not obtained any exclusive privi- 

 lege. On occasions of emergency, these boats 

 have been used for the conveyance of troops, 

 and have thereby greatly contributed to forward 

 the public service. A courier with a mail 

 leaves Quebec every week for Halifax and 

 Nova Scotia, by the way of Fredericton, and 

 St. John's, New Brunswick. As this cosumu- 

 nication across the portage of Timiscouata is 

 one of considerable importance, it will be re- 

 curred to again, on speaking of the settlements 

 thereabouts. Between the city and Point Levi, 

 on the opposite shore of the St. Lawrence, a 

 great number of ferry-boats are continually 

 passing to and fro, the principal part of which 

 belong to the inhabitants about the Point, as 



