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Show TRAVELS THROUGII LOWER CANADA: fine as that, for infbnce, from the battery; for in furveying th~ diffe_re~t objcB:s below you from fuch a i1upendous height, thei~· magn1tuc! JS 111 a ()'rent mca!rU. l. 1o1n1., a11d it fccms as if you were lookmg at a draft of th: ountry more than at the country itCclf. It is the upper battery that I allllde to, f<lcing the bafon, and is about three hundred feet above the level of the w.tter. II re, if yoLI Hand but a few yards from the cd_gc of the p:· cip:ce, you may look down at once upon the river, the vcflels upon which, as they [,til up to the \\ harfs before the lower ~own~ appear as if they were camino· under yom very feet: The nvcr 1tfelf, which is b<.:tween five and fix miles wide, and vd1b1e as £u· as the dii1ant end of the ifland of Orleans, where it lofcs it{clf amidft: the mountains that bound it on each fide, is one of the moO: b autiful objcCl: s in nature, and on a fine i1ill fummer's evening it often w~ars the appearance of a vaft mirror, where the varied rich tints of the Dey, as well as the images of the different objeB:s on the banks, are fecn reflected with inconceivable lufl:re. The fouthcrn bank of the river, indented fancifully with bays and promontories, remains nearly in a fiate of nature, cloathed v\ith lofty trees; but the oppof1te {hore is thickly covered with houfes, extending as along other parts of the river already mentioned,. in one uninterrupted village, fcemingly, as far as the eye C;-tn reach. On this fide the profpcCl: is terminated by an cxtenGve range of mountains, the flat lands fituated between and the villages on the banks not being vifible to a fpc:B:ator at ~ebec, it ii ems as if the mountain& rofe directly out of the water, and the houfes were built on their frccp· and rugged fides. Beautiful as the environs of the city appear when fecn at a dii1ance,. they do not appear lefs fo on a more clofc infpetl:ion, and in palling through them the eye is entertained with a mofi plcafing variety of fine landfcapes, whilfi the mind is equally gratified with the appearance of content and happinefs that reigns in the countenances of the inhabitants. Indeed, if a country as fruitful as it is piB:urcfque, a genial and healthy climate, and a tolerable {hare of civil and religious liberty, can make people happy, none ought to appear more fo than the Canadians, during this delightful :{( afon of the year. Before FALL OF MONTMORENCI. Before I difmifs this fubjeCl: entirely, I muft give you a brief account ()[two fcenes in the vicinity of ~ebec, more particularly dcferving of attention than any thc.:rs. The one is the Pall of the River Montmorcn i; the other, that of the Chaudiere. The former ilream runs into the t. awrence, about fcv n miles belo\v ~ebcc; the latter joins the fame river nearly at an equal di!bnce above the city. The lVlontmorcnci River runs in a very irregular courfe, throuO'h a wild and thi kly wooded country, over a bed of bmkcn rocks, till it comes to the brink of a precipice, down which it dcfcends in one uni11- tcrrupted and nearly perpendicular fall of two hundred and forty feet. The ftr am of water in this river, except at the time of floocis, is but fcanty, bnt being broken into foam by ruf11ing with fuch rapidity as it does over the rocks at tbc top of the precipice, it is thereby much di] ated, and in its fall appears to be a fhcct of water of no inconficlerabJe magnitude. The breadth of the river at top, fi-om bank to bank, is about fifty feet only. 1n its fall, the water has the exatt appearance of .fi1ow, as when thrown in heaps from the roof of a houfc, anJ it feemingly dcfcends with a very flow motion. The fpray at the bottom is confiderable, and when the fun happens to 1hine bright in the middle of the day, the prifmatic colours arc exhibited in it in all their variety anc.llufl:rc. At the bottom of the precipice the water i confined in a fort of bafon, a it were, by a mafs of rock, extending nearly acrofs the fall, and out of this it :flows with a gentle current to the St. Lawrence, which is about three hundred yards di!l:ant. The banks of the Montmorenci, below the precipice, arc nearly perpendicular on one fide, and on both, in<lCcefl1bJc, fo that if a pcrfon be defirous of getting to the bottom of the fall, he mufi: dcfccnd down the banks of the St. Lawrence, and wall· along the margin of that river till he comes to the chafin through which the Montmorenci flows. To a perfon failing along the St. Lawrence, pafl: the mouth of the chafm, the f.'lll ap1 ears in great beauty. General Haldimand, formerly governor of Canada, was fo much delighted with this cataraB:, that he built a dwelling houfc clofe to it, from the parlour windows of which it is feen in a very advantageous point of view. In front of the houfc is a neat lawn, that runs down the whole |