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Show ·'2 ~ ,, «;' :r. :r. ~ .... ",.,'.· ... ' , C II AM B L Y CASTLE. che:1pcr to creel frc£l1 worh th:tn to attempt to repair them. There is ~ king ' dock yard here, well fton.:d with timb ' r, at ]call:, wh<.:n we L'lw it; but in. the o urfc f the fummer, after the armed brig which I mc1ttioncd was bi lup, all the.: timber w.1 fold off. The old hulks of [cveral ve{ld · of force wcr<.: ly ing op polltc the yard. In proportion to the in r ·ale of trade betwc<.:n N ew York and Lower :111acla this town. muCl: it prove, as it is th~ Pritilh port of entry on J ake Champlain. rl he country about t. John's is £lat, and very bare of tre es, a dreadful fire in the year r788 havillg done g r at mi(chi<.:f, and ddl.roycd all the w od for fcv ral miles: in (om<.: parts of the n<.:ig hbourhood the people fufr ·r extremdy duritw winter from the want of fuel. At St. John's we hired a light wagg n, .fimilar to th fc made u(e of jn the Unit d , tat s, and r~· t off about noon for La Pr:u·ic, on the banks of the river St. Lawr<.:n c. Dy the dinx road, this is only <:ighteen miles difl.ant; but the mofl: :1g rceable way of going thither is by hambly, whi h i a few miles farther, on account of feeing the o1J cafile built there by 1 he French. The cafl:le fl:ancls clo(e to tile rapids in Chambly or Sorclle Riv e r, and at a little dill:ancc has a granJ appcaran e; the adjacent country alfo b<.:ing very beautiful, the whok together form s a mofl: interdling fcenc. The caillc is in tolerably good repair, and a garrifc n is eonfbntly kept in it. As you travel along this roa I to La Prarie, after havi11g jufi arrived from the United States over Lake ham plain, a variety of obje s forcibly remind you of your having got into a new country. The Britin1 flag, the foldiers on duty, the French inhabitants running about in their red nightcaps, the children cominrr to the doors to falute you as you pal!, a thing unknown in any part of the United State , the ompaCl: and neat exterior appearance of the hou(es, the cala£l1 ·s, the bons dicux, the large Roman Catholic churches and hapels, the convents, the pridL in their robes, the nuns, the friars, a11 fervc to convin e you that you are no 1onger i11 any part of the United States; the language alfo dif.fers, French being here univerCtlly fpoken. The cala{h is a carriage very generally ufed in Lower Canada; there is fca.rccly a farmer indeed in the country who docs not poilC::fs one; .i. t ' |
