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Show 'L , VEL. Til ~OUGII 1.0\VER CANADA: , .111 · • i . \ n.tl little ill 111ds in the ri vc· r nnr the town, partly improved , p . ' · · 1 I b " t of the fccnc . 1 t 1;; o ·~TC r \ '11 ,,. ,th w 1od, ad l o-r ·at y to t 1e ~,tu Y . . _ j 1 1 r;l ri , ·i t 1 it b rge cl ur h on the diflant fide of the nvcr, _,s .ken_ to 1 <' :•n H ·tl ,hh',lnt1 ·~c , and he:ond it is a ru :e of lofty mount:uns wh1ch 1 , . 1 1 ,~; 11 ,1 tcs the· pro(pvn. Such an cndlc[c; v.uicty and fuch a gr•:ndcur is tJ 1crL' j 11 the \ icw from this p:11t of the mountain, that even thole who :trt: moil b;1bitnatcd to the \ iew n1ways find it a frcfi1 fubjcct of admiration \-\'lH:nn cr they contempbtc it; and on this part of the mountain it ·5 tha.t the club v<vhich f mentioned gcncr.tlly affetnbles. Two <l:cw,mls 1 rc appointed ((Jr the chy, who alway ch Jlc fomc new fpot wher~ then! j~ a fpring or nll f water, and an agreeable ill::Hlc: cnch family brings :old rroviiJons, win ·, &c.; tht: whole i put together, and the company, often amo unt ing to one hundred pcrfons, fits down to dinner. The fur tr:Jde is what i chiefly carried on at Montreal, and it is thcr that the gr atcr par o the furs are fbippc l, which arc fent from C.tnacLt to England. This very lucmti · tra is c:1rricd on, partly by wh:Jt is called th<.: orth \V ,11: Company, and partly hy private ind ividuals on their own {lCcou nt. The company doc~ not po!Tc[<; any particular privilcg s by hw, bu t from its great ap!tal n rely it is enabled to tr.1ele to ccrta.in remote part of the continent, to the exclufion of thofe who d not hold any {hares in it. It was formed orig i11ally by the: merchants of l\1ont rcal themfclves, who wifely confidercd that the trade coul l b carri :l. on to thofc dithnt p:uts of the continent, inhabited fo lely by Indians, with more fccurity and greater prufit, if they j oined together in a body, tl1an jf they continued to trade feparately. The flock of the c mpany was divided into forty D1arcs, and as the number of merchants in the town at that time was not very great, thi <: arrangement afforded an opportunity to very one of them to join in the company if he thought proper. At prefcnt thcfc il1ares have all f.t llcn into the hands of a few perfons. The company principally carries on its trade l y means of the Utawas or Grand River, that f~ lls into the t. Lawrence about thirty miles above Montreal, and which form s, by its confluence with that ri er, " Le ~~ Lac. de Deux Montagnes ct le Lac St. Louis.:'-the lake of the Two Mo~mtains · U R T R A D E. Mount<lins and the Lake of St. Louis, wherein arc Ii·verul larg iiTand . To convey the furs downs thi river, they mal c u(c of canoes, fi rmcd of the bark of the bir h tree, fame of which are upon fuch a J.ugc fcale that they arc capable of containing tw ton s, but they fd lom put fo much in th em, cfp cially on this ri ver, it being in rna.ny places D1allow, rapid, nncl full of ro ks, and con t..tins no l<.:fs than thirty-two portages. The anocs arc naviga ted by the Fr nch Canadians, who an.: particularly fond of the employment, preferring it in general to that of cultivating the ground. A fl eet of them ic ts off from M ntreal about the month of May, laden with provillons, confifling chi ·Ay of bifcuit and £1lt pork, fuilicicnt to b£1:: the crews till their retu rn, and alf with the article o-ivcn in barter to the Indians. At fo1m: f the {hnllow place in tht: river, it is fuilicicnt if the men merely get out of the canoes, and pu D1 them on into the deep water; but at others, where tbcrc arc drwgcrous rapids and fharp rocb, it is ncccfhry for the m<:n to unbck the canoes, and carry both them and the cargoes on their {boulder, , till they come again to a f.1fe part of the riv t:r. At night they drag the canoes upon fh re, light a fire, cook their provifions for tht.: following day, and fleep upon the ground wrapp~d up in tht:ir bhnkets. If it happens to rain very hard, they fomctimcs il1cltcr thcm(clvcs witl boughs of trt:es, hut in g..::n ral they r main unckr the canOJ f of heaven, without <1ny covering but their blanke ts : they copy e, actly the IJJdim mode of life on th ·k occ::d1ons, and many of them c en we.u tile Ind i,m dreflcs, which th y find more conv nient than tl cir own. Having afcendcd the Uta was Rive· for about two hundrc l a1 d eigh ty miles, which it takes th er:q about eighteen days to perform, they then crofs by a portage into La! c N ifpining. and fi-om tltis la {C by another portage tl cy g t upon French iver, that .f.t!ls into Lake Huron on the north-caLl: fide ; then coafl:ing along thi · lalllal e they pals through the Straits of St. Mary, where there is another portage into Lake Superior; and coa11:ing afterwards along th~ fhorcs of Lake Su pcr·or, they omc to the Grand Portage on the north-we£1:: fide of it; from hence by a chain of fi11alllakcs and riv rs they pro ·e d on to the Rainy Lake, to |