of timber floating down the stream, and covered with men, women, children, and huts. Description, however, can never do justice to this vast picture; nothing but a panorama painting can give those who have not beheld it a full idea of its splendid magnificence.; and well would it remunerate those artists who have excelled in painting the enchanting delusions exhibited in panorama views, if they were to cross the Atlantic, and bring back to Europe a representation of that which is beheld from the citadel of Cape Diamond. ENVIRONS OF QUEBEC. - ST. ROCH. - ROAD TO MONTMORENCI. LAKE ST. PETER. - DELTA. - FORT WILLIAM HENRY. - RIVER RICHLIEU. - SUMMER RESIDENCE OF THE GOVERNOR. - FORT CHAMBLY. — ST. JEAN. - ISLE AUX NOIX. - ROUSE'S POINT.LAKE CHAMPLAIN. - ST. LAWRENCE FROM FORT WILLIAM HENRY TO MONTREAL. On the low ground which lies between the walls of Quebec and the St. Charles, a multitude of shabby, dirty-looking wooden buildings, inhabited generally by the labouring classes, form the suburb of St. Roch. This suburb has now a handsome church, parsonagehouse, and a large school. Near the Côte de St. Généviève, extending towards St. Foix, stands the suburbs St. John. The latter votes for the return of members to the Assembly for the upper town; the former, for the lower. In summer, one of the most pleasant rides or walks in the vicinity of the city is over Scott's Bridge, and along the road leading amongst the cottages, orchards, and farms of Beauport, to the falls of Montmorenci. The river of the same name with this cataract flows down from the northern mountains, among woods and rocks, and then over rugged steps through a richly cultivated country, until within a few yards of the precipitous banks of the St. Lawrence, where, contracting to a breadth of little more than fifty feet, it thunders over a perpendicular ledge 230 feet high. In summer, the volume of water precipitated over this fall is greatly reduced. In spring particularly, and before winter sets in, the body of water hurled down is immense. A little above the falls, the river is crossed by a bridge; and near the brink of the ledge there is a mill, frightfully, but securely pitched, he wheels of which are turned by the rapidity of the current. A stream has also been diverted from the river above the cataract, for the purpose of turning the wheels of Patterson's saw-mills, which are a little distance below. These mills are the largest in Canada, if not in America. The road to St. Foix, which leads along the heights, is also exceedingly interesting; and more particularly so, if we turn down towards the St. Lawrence into the beautifully secluded dingle of Sillery, once the abode of pious missionaries, established here a little after the first settlement of the country. This place, including four leagues north by one in breadth, was formerly given to the Hurons of Jeune Lorette; the Jesuits are said to have cajoled them out of it. The road leading along the picturesque St. Charles to the Indian hamlet of Jeune Lorette, is one of the most interesting outlets from Quebec. Lorette contains the wretched remnant of the once warlike and powerful nation of the Hurons, reduced to its present degraded, and nearly exterminated state, by the quarrels and diseases of Europeans, and by the introduction of brandy, rum, and gunpowder. There is rather a neat-looking church in this hamlet; and the Indians, who speak French, attend to all the ceremonies of the Catholic religion with the most implicit obedience to their priest; but most of them, except the women, are lazy, and addicted to drink; and few things appear more likely than that, before another century expires, the whole race will vanish from the face of the earth. A little above Lorette, there is a beautiful cascade; and, three miles further on, we reach the picturesque lake out of which the river flows. It is three miles long; and two rugged points, jutting across about the middle, nearly divide it into two lakes. The scenery altogether is enchanting; and to it the "brothers of the angle" may resort with great pleasure, and with the certainty of greater success than "a glorious nibble." The cataract of Chaudière is sufficiently interesting, even for those who have beheld Niagara, to visit. Four miles from the southern shore of the St. Lawrence, and twice that distance from Quebec, the Chaudière, 240 yards in breadth, with its banks decorated with woods and glades, and broken into romantic grandeur by vast masses of rocks, roars and foams, in wild sublimity, over immense ledges of more than 100 feet in height, and then rushes, and boils, and thunders, over and among rocks and ledges, until within a short distance of the St. Lawrence. The Chaudière is a large river, or rather unnavigable torrent. A road, leading from opposite Quebec along its eastern bank, has been extended across the province to the River Kennebec in the district of Maine, and completed in 1830. The country on each side of the St. Lawrence, from Quebec to Montreal, exhibits a succession of parishes, mostly consecrated by names of places in France, and the whole so thickly settled as to assume the appearance of one continued village. The post road leads through those on the north shore; and on the south there are also good roads between the Concessions; but this part of Canada is scarcely ever frequented by travellers, and, beautiful and populous as it is, yet very little known. The country on the south side of the St. Lawrence, from the River Chaudière to St. Regis, and back to the boundary of the United States, forms 17 counties, containing a population of 188,000 persons; and, according to Colonel Bouchette, the Surveyor-General's account, occupying a surface of 13,864 square miles. The lands fronting on the St. Lawrence, the borders of the Chaudière, Yamaska, and Richelieu, are held by seigniorial tenures. The territory between these and the American line is principally laid out in townships, and partially settled upon. The surface of this region, which includes the whole district of St. Francis, and portions of the districts of Montreal and Three Rivers, is diversified with rivers and lakes, alluvions, uplands, high hills approaching to the character of mountains, dense forests, cultivated districts in the townships, and populous villages in the seigniories and new settlements. At Nicolet, a seminary or college was established many years ago by the good Plessis, the late Bishop of Quebec. A new edifice, of great beauty and magnitude, has been lately built to replace it. The banks of the tributary rivers, flowing from each side into the St. Lawrence, are closely settled on; and some of these, particularly the Chaudière, |