MONTREAL, 
SB 
language ; they have an unconquerable aver¬ 
sion to learn English, and it is very rare to 
meet with any person amongst them, that 
can speak it in any manner; but the Eng¬ 
lish inhabitants are, for the most part, well 
acquainted with the French language. 
The people of Montreal, in general, are re¬ 
markably hospitable and attentive to stran¬ 
gers; they are sociable also amongst them¬ 
selves, and fond in the extreme of convivial 
amusements. In winter, they keep up such 
a constant and friendly intercourse with each 
other, that it seems then as if the town were 
inhabited but by one large family. During 
summer they live somewhat more retired; but 
throughout that season a club, formed of all 
o 
the principal inhabitants, both male and fe¬ 
male, meet every week or fortnight, for the 
purpose of dining at some agreeable spot in 
the neighbourhood of the town. 
The island of Montreal is about twenty- 
eight miles in length and ten in breadth; it is 
the largest of several islands which are si¬ 
tuated in the St. Lawrence, at the mouth of 
the Utawa River. Its soil is luxuriant, and 
in some parts much cultivated and thickly in¬ 
habited. It is agreeably diversified with hill 
and dale, and towards its center, in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Montreal, there are two or three 
