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neighbourhood and vicinity. It is a beautiful city,
built on an island. I had them half-a-day's work to do.
We had to cart every bit of our luggage and send it off
to another wharf. Of course our through tickets paid for
this. We had only to engage the carts. Our through tickets
also found us calashes, or cars, or cabs whichever you call
them to take us to the wharf. Then we got ourselves
and things on board the Passport Steamer, and shall
stay here until we get to Toronto. Then I rushed up into
Montreal. I only had an hour. I saw everything and
did everything I could. I rushed about the city like
a mad fellow. I had not time to see Mr. Sibley Forster,
though I passed the street, I could not find Bleury Street,
so I called upon the ship-agent, I know the man, and
he found me a person that was he said perfectly
trustworthy, and that took a great many parcels, and
he undertook to deliver the one I brought for Mrs N.
Then off we sailed. Every now and then for seven
miles, we have to turn into a huge canal, and
steam up it, rising by locks. This is in order to avoid
the rapids. I have just seen a Steamer go down the
rapids. It goes down at a tremendous rate, like a
railway carriage, more than like a boat. A few minutes