TRAVELS, &c» 
LETTER XXVIII. 
Leave Quebec.—Convenience of Travelling be¬ 
tween that city and Montreal.—Post Houses . 
— Calashes. — Drivers. — Canadian Horses 
very serviceable. — Salutations on arriving at 
different Post Houses. —Beautiful Prospects 
from the Road on the Top of the Banks of the 
St. Lawrence. — Female Peasants. — Style of 
Farming in Canada .— Considerably improved 
of late.—Inactivity of Canadians in not clear¬ 
ing more Land .— Their Character contrasted 
with that of the People of the States.—Ar¬ 
rival at Trois Rivieres. —Description of that 
Town and its Vicinity .— Visit to the Convent of 
St. Ursule. — Manufactures of Birch-Bark „ 
Birch Canoes, how formed.—Leave Trois 
Rivieres, and reach Montreal . 
Montreal, August. 
HAVING remained in Quebec and the 
neighbourhood as long as we could, con¬ 
sistently with the plan which we had formed 
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