New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-17

our side Of the lake We see ct Kingston what 10
10 be seen In nearly al tho Cannda towns-iargo
public buildings built In the most solid manner o'
eray limestone. Tho market house hero 10 very
extensive, and worth more than all the mAf S
houses that ever New.Y0rk owned Inc
town has an imposing front OF stone houses, and
considerable business in the coasting- trade with
the bsys and rivers of the north side OF Lake IN
tario and the Bytovn Canal, but little with the
immediate neighborhood, which il very rough and
hard to cultivate.
We left Kingston at o'clock, and Immediately
afterward were floating down the broad ST. Law
renee. and for 81 miles to Brockve, among the
Thousand Islands and Wild scenery, so interest.
ing TO every one who delights 20 read the book OF
nature But few of these islands are cultivated or
cultivable They are mostly covered with cedar,
and vary in size from a hundred acres dow 70
single bush upon bare rock. The SIDES OF many
are perpendicuar, with water deep enough to lay
a ship alongside, as 10 wharf: There are some
very intricate channels just wide enough for
canoe TO Glide between the rocks under the cedar
boughs.
Brockville is another OF the imposing gray stone
towns but not che of large business. The country
back of it is rough and stony, with rather cold
soil except where it is only few inches deep on
the fat rcck and there the crops suffer IN every
drouth The Canada thistle, too, is great curse
TO all this country, as it mOnopolizes about one
third of the farmers fields
Twelve miles below Broskyille is the first
American town Of any size since leaving osche'te
Harbor Here we leave the great Lake steamers
for Others buit TO suit the navigation OF the rapids
of the st. Lawrence and the canal which they have
to use On their return trip. We reached Ogdens-
burgh between and O'Clock, and such of the pas
sepeers were bound to Montreal went on board the
Jenny Lind, Capt Moody, to sleep, because her hour
of starring o'clock in the morning is I@fder TOO
early for lazy folks to on board In the morning
che ran over 10 Prescott, small Canadian Gown
of Patriot War" memory, opposite Ogdensourgh
and took in n deck load of beeyee, and then ran
back to the railroad wharf, where she met the eX-
press lire boat that left Le"stown % hours alter
| the BAY State. Thus the boat that runs to Mont
real takes from Ogdensburgh the passengers OF
! both lines OF lake boats.
THE RAPIDS.
| The distance from Montrealt0 Ogdensburgh II
I46 miles and the time about nine hours, passing
only one town of any Importance, Cornwall, IN tue
| whole distance But what is lacking IN town
scenery TO interest the traveller is made up III the
! mast yiyiS pictures of nature wild and terrible
! With the exception of few hours in Lake ST.
! Fraucisyille. where the lake widens out SIX or
seven miles. tie boat is running succession OF
! rapids al day, and some of them would b. really
fearful but tnat We know they have been run every
day through the Summer for seven years; ahd 30
they are simply exciting
|
scenes is 40 the Lachine Rapids, commencing eight
or nine miles above Montreal and finishing of in
front Of the upper part Of the city. In fact' the
! boat has to make wide circuit around the shoals
at the foot of the rapid to come to her wharf
where she discharges her passengers, whlcl Is IN
| the lower lock of the canal. by walch she mas ID
return In the shoal water at the foot OF these
rapids the piers OF the great Victoria Bridge are
row building though at present very slowly, Tor
the want of that very important Item, funds, In
| work that il 10 cost seyenand a-hali millions Oh
| dollars The bridge is to be tube OF iron a mule
and threequarers long TO cross over the trains OF
the "Grand Trunk Railway" that leads from
| Portland, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, to Lake
| Huron. II is now in operation between montreal
and Quebec and Portland, and from Toronto to
Georgiana Bay The route to Portland and Que
| bee is the same from the ferry opposite Montreal
| TO Richmond 81 miles, where 1t branches. Inc
distance to Point Levi, opposite Quebec, is los
miles, and time seven hours. The distance TO
Portland is 292 miles, and time 81 hours Tourists
| to the White Mountains take this route, and 50
they do to Boston, as well as the road by way OF
Ronse's Point and Burlington There is also rail-
! road to Plattsburgh by way of Lachne, nine miles
UP the river where the WintercrOssng Is less dfl-
cult than it is opposite the city Tourists up the
| St Lawrence often take the railroad by Rouse
| Point to OSdeBsburgb, to avoid the slow passage
! of the canal and rapids.
| There are some curiOsi;ies in Montreal beside
the long streets OF gray stone buildings, the hand-
| some market houses and magnificent cathedral and
SPACIOUS nunneries where hundreds OF women are
inmured in uselessness in massive stone buildings.
| One OF the curiOsites is the want Of adequate no
| tel room to accommodate the swarm OF summer
visitors The only large hotel Montreal ever had,
| Doneeana's was burned in the great ire some
! years sgo and has never been rebuilt, and notWltn-
standing the proprietor failed aud lett the city
before tie house was burned, some shrewd fellow
has continued the name, and still draws custom to
small house upon the reputation gained by Don
! egapa while he fOurished. The Montreal House,
kept by one Of the great Coleman family, is not
half big enough TO supply the demand upon It's ca
pacties during the Summer months.
To traveller fresh from New-YOrk the appear
ance of the people and almost the entire manner
of doing business in Montreal will interest him as
curiosity. The great business streets OF s. Rue
st Paul and " Rue Notre Dame" where most
OF the retail stores cOngregated, are SO narrow
| that only two carriages can pass, and the side
walks are barely wide enough for two persons to
walk side by side The merchandise is not exhib-
tied in the street as it is in New-York, and it is
difficult to tell drug store from hat-shop, or an
| ironware house from dry goods store, until you
get opposite the narrow door, or small window, SO
| as 10 peer into the dark recess beyond the thick
! stone walls.
The numerous cabs like tub on wheels drawn
! BY shaggy pony, and the old French caleche,
| ike Boston chaise with the driver in place of
the dashboard, rafting through the streets at
break neck speed, are objects of curiosity 10 all
strangers but the most curious of all the vehicles
ever invented by man is Montreal dray. 1t Is
simply long ladder, mounted on high PAIR OF
wheels with q small horse hltched 10 one end. IL
is almost impossible TO conceive anything more in
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