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present population of (say) 65,000 inhabitants, the people of 

 Montreal kill off 1365 of their own flesh and blood every year, 

 who would not die, did they only pay as much attention to 

 health in the city, as they did in the country. " 



In addition to his Sunday services, he did what he could 

 to cheer and benefit the Sunday school teachers at the 

 Unitarian Church ; and stirred up some among them to take 

 Sunday walks with, and to visit, youths who seemed to him like 

 sheep without a shepherd : and after his last sermon, many 

 came and wished him an earnest good-bye. " My Montreal 

 visit,' 7 he wrote, " prevents me from thinking myself altogether 

 a barren fig-tree ; but I found everything a great effort, and I 

 am free to say that I do not feel yet able to resume work at 

 Warrington. ... I do not love them any the less ; but it 

 seems to me that I have taught all I know, and finished my 

 work there." 



From Montreal he went to Quebec, where he lectured on 

 Sanitary Reform and Prohibition : and the friend who had 

 driven him on the ice towards Montmorency now walked with 

 him there. They examined the Falls very fully, although 

 climbing was then dangerous ; and he was not deterred by his 

 twenty-mile ramble from going next day, before his lecture, to 

 the less-known falls of the Chaudiere (the boiling river), which 

 he thoroughly explored by himself. These he considered th 

 most picturesque he had seen ; they reminded him of th 

 loveliest bits of the Lynmouth (North Devon) falls on a vast 

 scale : " the river springs down a rocky chasm as irregular as 

 anyone could wish, with huge masses of very dark limestone 

 piled up anyhow, not flat and slaty like the Ottawa an 

 Niagara." 



On his way back to Boston, he spent a few pleasant day 

 with Mr. Neal Dow, the hero of the Maine Law, at Portland 

 At that time the law was efficient in the smaller towns and 

 country districts, but was continually evaded in the city : Mr. 

 Dow expected that it would be enforced when the magistrates 

 were less timid, or more alive to its importance. Philip here 

 became acquainted with Mr. Morse, an enthusiastic young 



