1808.] 
which obviously explained the whole bu- 
siness. 
I had intended to have made some furs 
ther experiments on the remaining Hol- 
lands, for the purpose of ascertaining the 
real quantity of lead dissolved in a given 
portion of it; but when, a few days af- 
terwards, it was enquired for, I was sorry 
to find it had been inadvertently thrown 
away. 
It may not be improper here to fe- 
mark, that when the test of Hahnemann 
is employed far the purpose of detecting 
lead in wine, which is now frequently 
done, the bottle from which itis taken 
should be always inspected, to know if 
any shot has been left in it, before any 
censure be passed on the wine merchant; 
as if this caution be not used, the reputa- 
tion of an honest conscientious man may 
be unjustly called in question, and in- 
jured. And it may be a matter for se- 
rious consideration, whether some less 
exceptionable method of cleaning bottles 
cannot be pointed out than that now in 
eommon use, with shot, a portion of 
which is almost always left wedged in at 
the bottom, Your's, &c, 
Ipswich, Fuly 6, 1807. Jes As 
N.B. To detect the admixture of lead in 
wine, &c equal parts of oyster-shells and 
crude sulphur may be kept in a white heat for 
fifteen minutes, and when cold, mixed with 
an equal quantiry of acidulous tartrite of pot- 
ash (cream of Tartar), and put into a strong 
bottle with common water, to boil for an: 
hour, and then decanted into bottles holding 
an ounce each. To each ounce bottle add 
twenty drops of muriatic acid. 
Fa 
fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
F the following brief account of a 
very unusual tour is feund worthy of 
insertion in your interesting eae kes ie it 
is very much at your service. . 
Yours, &¢. 
A CONSTANT READER. 
Glusgow, Jun. 1808. 
‘<¢ Last winter I received orders from our 
colonel to proceed to Canada upon urgent bu- 
siness. On the i2th of March Iset out from 
this place on snow-shoes, @ /a sauvage, with a 
knapsack on my back. 1 was attended bya 
stout private of our regiment, 2 guide, and 4 
Jarge dog, who drew a small sledge loaded 
with provisions, blankets, and other neceg- 
Saries. The weather was extremely cold, 
oh, os the s snow in general three and four fect 
die Our route Jay about N. W. for one 
dr dred and fifty miles up the river St. 
‘The usual methed is to travel on the 
Riisssunately it was broken yp or 
4 : ‘ 4 
Tour from New Brunswick to Quebec. 
185 
dangerous, so that we were forced to ‘‘rike 
into the woods, and force our way th- »ugh 
wilds untrod by human feet. We reached 
the ‘€ Grand Falls in six days (one hundred 
and fifty miles), marching from sun-rise to 
sun-set. The fatigue baffles all description 3 
walking on snow-shoes, encumbered with a 
knapsack, through thick woods, up and down 
steep hiJls. We contrived to get intoa house 
every night except one, when we encamped 
in the snow. ‘This is a curious way of spend- 
ing the night~-we halt in a convenient place, 
and immediately set to work, one cutting 
down trees, and preparing fuel for the night, 
whilst another digs out the snow with his 
snow-shoe, so as to form a pit, on one side of 
which a large fire is made, opposite to which 
we lie down on a couch of spruce boughs, 
wrapped up as well as we can, with the pleg- 
sure of being almost roasted on one side, fro- 
zen gn the other, and stifled with smoke. At 
the’ Grand Falls is a small military post, 
where we keepa fewmen. Here I remained 
one night, On the 18th, having dismissed 
my guide, and procured a horse, I set out 
with my attendant, and travelled thirty-five 
miles through a small French settlement, 
and that night slept at the last house in New 
Brunswick. On the 19th we marched all day 
in a snow storim, and encamped at night. 
20th. Proceeded across a lake, on the bank 
of which we encamped. 2ist, Entered on 
the Grand Portage, or land which separates 
the lake from St. Lawrence: encamped as 
usual. 22d, Proceeded at dawn of day, and 
marching almost without any halt until five 
o'clock P.M. we reached a house about one” 
hundred and ten miles below Quebec. During 
the last four days we had not seen a trace of 
human beings, except sometimes the track of 
an Indian snow-shoe. I was almost knocked 
up with fatigue, having travelled in this man- 
ner upwards of three hundred miles in elevea 
days. On the 234 I hired asledge, and set 
out for Quebec, which place Freached in two 
days; re.ted three days, and proceeded to 
Montreal, one hundred and ninety miles 
higher, where I remained until the Sth of 
May. Being determined to take a new route 
home, I set out as soon as the rivers were 
freed of the ice, and proceeding south about 
twenty-seven miles to Fort St. John, on the 
river Chamblay, embarked in a sloop, and 
sailing with a fine wind up Lake Cham- 
plain, reached the south end of it in less than 
twenty-four hours, a ryn of one hundred and 
fifty miles. J landed, and proceeded seventy 
miles, to a fine thriving town on Hudson’s 
river. I went to Albany, six miles below, 
where I embarked on board a sluop, and in 
four days landed at New York, one hundred 
and sixty-five miles. Here I embarked ina 
ae for St John’ s, New Brunswick, which 
place I reached after a boisterous passage of 
five days. Two days more brought me here, 
which concluded a curious tour, having made 
a eitcuit of nearly seyenteca hi undred miies, 
My 
