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intervals, where travellers may pass the night 

 under shelter from the weather ; but as they 

 are uninhabited, nothing further is to be ex- 

 pected from them. Two of the veteran soldiers 

 (Clifford and Gardner) who are settled on the 

 River St. Franfois, about midway along the 

 portage, have got good and comfortable cot- 

 tages, the accommodations of which they are 

 always ready to afford to passengers, and it 

 rarely happens that any one goes by who is 

 not eager to accept them. The principal 

 mountains over which the road runs are the 

 St. Franf ois. Cote de la Grande Fourche, Jean 

 Paradis, La Montague de la Riviere Verte, and 

 du Buard; the rivers are Du Loup, Riviere 

 Verte, and Trois Pistoles, that flow into the St. 

 Lawrence, and the Riviere St. Franpois, that 

 falls into River St. John. At Long's Farm the 

 traveller cannot fail to be pleased with a beau- 

 tiful and picturesque prospectof Lake Timiscou- 

 ata, twenty-two miles in length by the average 

 breadth of three quarters of a mile, encompassed 

 in all directions by lofty mountains covered with 

 thick wood almost down to its margin : several 

 large rivers lend the aid of their powerful 

 streams to swell the waters of this romantic and 

 secluded expanse. In this spot, so far removed 

 from the habitations of man and the pleasures 



