Litchfield enquirer., 1830-12-02
We fnd the following free and airy sketchings of PemcilIings by the Way,'
 in the Philadelphia Inquirer

<A"Ss 0.-A Ike NIuebecs There is a
 foreign look about it, with it's dark old
 buildings, and deep, barred windows. The
 people in the street have all such a pic-
 tWresqUe air-the Canadians with their red
 sashes about their waists, and the English
 soldiers with their autOMaton looks, and
 the HighIanders in costume, and the queer
 vehicles, and the small horses, and the
 priests and the nnns-all so mingled Up,
 and so different from our own uniformly
 inquisitive, and wi,hal (though the epithe,s
 scarce harmonize) respectable air. The
 Yankees all look (to use one of their phra-
 ses) . we'll to do in the world '" YOu would
 know by tho way they button their vests,
 and wear their hats, and psrk their under
 lips, that they lived in four story houses,
 with tidy fence and rose bush in front.
 In Canada it is quite GW cOntr0ire. Your respectable man is fat and English (i. c. unctuous) looking, and has his hat brushed smooth, and his shoes spoilessly polished !; while your men of chance or small reven- ue, shop.keepers, clerks, runners and high- waymen, look meek and obsequious, and
 wear their heads modestly at forward an- gle. l could imagine myself now in Ant werp or Brussels-sitting here by the sec ond story window in 'the Albion,' and watching the mongrsl races that keep the Pave below. And thore goes an lndian with string of moccasins to sell, grave as a martyr, aud looking neither to the right nor left-a singular demeanor,"a Yankee would think, for man who wanted to find customers. How strangely that Highland CT in the kilt looks beside him, and what glorious comba,ants they would make, pitt ted against each other in a deadly contes,.- both men of magnificent frames, and both evidently, if the port and the eye may be trusted, determined fellows. think I would bet on the Indian. That calm set- tied lip has dash of the heroic that would outlast the habilual courage of discipline.
 Aug. 4. Midnight.-l have just return ed from an English .fstc-champetre-a country evening party given in lighted grounds, with music, supper, and dancing- very gay and very brilliant, but to my acI,- ing limbs and bruised points, in somewhat painful contrast to bed aud anodynes. was fool to go, having rolled this morn ing down prccipice at MOntmorenci Falls, some hundred and fifty feet into the St. Lawrence, a bath from which emerged without drag or feelcrs, much to the as- tOnishMenl of the French guide, who had run back Co the house for shutter to car- " home the body 7 Itake this opportu- niiy to advise all adventurous youths given to display their alertness on such occasions, to g0quietly round the hill at MOntn,orenci, and enter the glen thro' which the fall de- scends to the opening, in preference to ate to short cut down the sides-the latter being nearly perpendicular, ofa loose aud brittle slate formation, and hundred and fifty feet in height-as awkward dis- tance to fall as could well be hit upon. attribute my escape entirely to my oxtraor. dinary corpulence, which, in the first place, protected my bones, and in the second place, prevented my cutting tho water very rapidly when I reached the river. If ever attempt to descend precipice again for lady's favor, when there is a proper ladder within ten feet, may bc--! And talking ofladies-I am now travelling with a Southern gentleman, wife and sister, whom I met at the Thousand Isles- pleasant people as, with the necessity for parting, care particularly to meet. The only trouble attending upon it is, that, de- voting myself of course to the single lady, she is perpetually taken by these detes.a- bic keepers ofhotels and captains of steam boats for wife They come to me con- stan,ly to pay for my wife's passage and . my lady's dinner ; and last night-hang mo if the chamber maid did not show me into the same room! have been reflect ing to-day whether there is such thing as . matrimonial look, and if there is, whe.h- CT the keeper of public house is not re- sponsible for his internal mistakes in such matters.
 Asg. 5. On board ihc steamer, and run- ming up the~St. Lawrence at fifteen miles tn the hour-pretsy well, considering it is against tho tide. My agreeable friend sits just beyond me, in the ladies' cabin, wri- ting in her journal and by that look at me just now, think can guess (modesty aside) at the item she is putting down at this moment. Beautiful creature dark eyes and hair, and though little too sal- low. yet wishal so soft and yielding in your manners! And your exquisite accent, too, and your little never-used feet and dainty 6ngcrs-ah. if your mamma and papa had bul had northern notions of education, what a glorious creature you might have made !! but you are most delightfully innocent of some things which other people know, and