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Show Tl AVELS TIJROUGTI LOvVER CANADA: fc-vcr.11 0; ·ntl men I t:1.flcd vinegar made ftom it by Dr. Nooth, all owc<l by l T~ < nc prcf 11t to b ·much fnperior to the belt French white vitH! vine ·ar . f, r at the fam!! time tint it pofldkd cqlul ; cidity, it ha'i a L J rnorc delicious fhvour. G orl t.tbk beer may lil-cwiL· b.:: mack from the f<1p, which nuny would mifbke for m.1lt li <JUO r. H diflillctl, the.: fap affL~ rd a very fine fpirit. ''h~ air of Lower Canada is C.'trcme1y pure, and the climate is dcemnl uricommonly £1lu rious, except only in the wdlcrn parts of the ptovincc, big 1 11 the River St. Lawrence, where, as is the cafe in almofl C\ cry part of the United States fouth of N c.:w England, b 't Nc n the ocean and the mountains, the inhabitants fuffcr to a great Jcgrcc fi·orn intermittent fevers. From Montreal downwards,. the cl inntl' refcmblcs very much that of the .fbtcs f New England; the pcopk Jive to a good old age, and intcrmittents are qui~ unknown. This rrrcat di f1crcncc in the healthinefs of the two parts of the province mull be attributed to the di fferent afpefrs of the country; to the call, Lower Cal\ada, 1ikc New England, is mountainou , but to the wefl: it is an ex-tended Rat. Thee trcmes ofheat and cold in Canada are amazing; in the months of July anci Augufl: the thermometer, according to Fahrenheit, is often known to rife to 96o, yet a winter fcareely paffes over but even the ·mercury itfdf freezes. Thofe very fudden tranfitions, however, from heat to cold, fo common in the United States, and fo very injurious to the confl:itution, arc unknown in Canada; the feafons a1fo are much more regular. The fnow generally begins to fall ia November; but fometimes it comes down as early as the latter end of October. This is the mofl: difagreeable part of the whole year; the air i then cold and raw, and the :lky dark and gloomy~ two days feldom pafs over together without a fall either of fnow or fleet. By the end of the firfl: or fecond week, however, in December, the clouds are generally difiolved, the froil !ets in, the fky affumes a bright and azure hue, and for weeks together it continues the fame, without being obfcured by a fingle cloud. The W I N T E R A M U S E M E N T S. 'fl e grcatcfl: dcr;re of cold which they exper1"cncc 1·1 1 C anau.J, t, IS jn the month f J;1nuary, when for a few days it i fometimes fo intenfe, that i.t is im1) O.ible for a hnman beiJJg to remain out of d~ors for any _confider:1b.c time, withou t evident d<lngcr of being frofl: b1tten. Thcfc very told days, however, do not come altogether, but iutervene ge nera!Jy :J t iomc ittlc difl:a ncc from each other; and between ~hem, il~ th~ depth or winter, the air is fomctimes fo warm that people m exerc1fe, m lh middle of the clay, fed di~)ofcd to lay aGdc the thick fur cloaks ufually worn out of doors. Thofe who have ever p:1.iT ·tl a winter in Canada, h:tve by no mean that dread of it fevcrity, which fomc woulJ have who have never experienced a greater degree of cold than wh.lt i commonly felt ia Great Britain; and ::ts for the Canadians them ftl ves, they pre[i-r the winter to every other fcafon ; indeed I never met with a Canadian~ rich or poor, male or femal e, bnt what was of that opinion; nor ought this to excite our fur prife, when it is confidered that they pafs the \ inter fo very differently from what we do. If a Canadian were doomed to fpend but fix weeks only in the country parts of England, when the ground was covered with {i ovv, I cb rc venture to fay that he would be as heart ily tired of the famencfs which then perv:1ded the face of nature, and as Je1irous of beholding a green field once more, as any one of us. Winter in Cana b. is the fcafon of gener.1l amufement. The clear frofty weather no ii oncr commences, tlun all th ough ts about bufi ncfs are laid afide, ancl every one devotes himfdf t p l:.l[tJr.;. The i 1habitants meet in conviviJ.l parties at ca h other's hou fcs, rrnd paf.'.l the Jay with mufic, danciJl[i, can.l-playinn·, at d every foci,tl entertainment that can beguik the time. At 1\tlontr al, in particular, fuch a conflant and friendly in te rcou rfc is kept tt :unon,.,.fl: the iuhabitants, that, as I have often heard it mentioned, it appears then as if the town were inhabited but by one large family. By means of their cariolcs or fledges, the Canadians tranfport themfelvcs over the fnow, from phce to place, in the moil agreeable manner, and with a degree of fwiftncfs that appears almofl: incredible; for with the f:une c; g l1orfc |