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WANDERINGS IN 



The Cana- 

 dians. 



TouRTH meet with at this time of the year, render the trip down 



JoUKNEY. 



to Montreal and Quebec very agreeable. 



The Canadians are a quiet, and apparently a happy 

 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. 



Montreal, Quebec, and the falls of Montmorency, are 

 well worth going to see. They are making tremendous 

 fortifications at Quebec. It will be the Gibraltar of the new 

 world. When one considers its distance from Europe, 

 and takes a view of its powerful and enterprising neigh- 

 bour, Virgil's remark at once rushes into the mind 



Fortifica- 

 tions at 

 Quebec, 



" Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves." 



I left Montreal with regret. I had the good fortune to 

 be introduced to the Professors of the College. These 

 fathers are a very learned and worthy set of gentlemen ; 

 and on my taking leave of them, I felt a heaviness at 

 heart, in reflecting that I had not more time to cultivate 

 their acquaintance. 



In all the way from Buffalo to Quebec, I only met with 

 one bug ; and I cannot even swear that it belonged to 

 the United States. In going down the St. Lawrence, in 

 the steam-boat, I felt something crossing over my neck ; 

 and on laying hold of it with my finger and thumb, it 



