Litchfield enquirer., 1881-10-20
A PLEASURE TRIP TO THE NORTH.

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 # Mr. EdiSor. The close of my last letter left our party at dinner at the St. Louis Hotel in Quebec, andI might as well explain right here, that then, and at all other times during our sojourn in Canada, we never lost sight for an instant of a high, and patriotic duty to our I country and it's financial prosperity, and we made it point to so reduce. the supply of i provisions wherever we .went,i that the home demand would tend to cut of exportation to Europe, and thus give our New-York expor- tersa better and quicker market. We don't know that our efforts have been appreciated ss home, but until we hear to the contrary. flour healiii is spared, we shall continue the good work; for 'tis a pleasure to serve ones Country" even in this small way, l suppose that our feelings and thoughts in this connec- ton must be identical with, those of the Patriot Hale, when he uttered those mem orable words. q regret that l. have but one life to give to the service of my country" (We hereby extend an apology to all of Mi. Hales near relatives, for the comparison.)
 oil cfrcil about the city, talked French with some of the natives, and couldn't discover any differ ence in favor of either, between our French and their United sStates-hopght .moccasins and trinkets of Mir and Mfss.. To the poor Indian" Looked over thecity walls and Notifications again, and quite emphatically came to the conclusion that if we ever got to be President of the United States, o: Heir to Throne, we should want to own the Hights of Quebec. We should certainly try to buy out the .'good will' of the parties up back of the walls before we undertook to take the place by force. There are many places of interest about the city and suburbs which time forbade our visiting. We attended church Sunday at the Church of Eng land, the Congregational, and the French Cathedral, and Sunday even- ing took the train for Montreal, via Quebec, Montreal 6 Ottawa R. R. sfosa ta . -tss. 2. Y In order to avoid the nights and the long precipitous river bank the southward or west ward bound train leaves the city headed east and swings around back of Quebec distance of some twenty miles before reaching the river again. Our train was an accommodation and stopped at fifteen or twenty little French villages between Quebec and Montreal. We. reached our hotel in the latter place Sunday evening at just about the average young fell lows Going home time" Monday morning. we visited the Notreg Dame Cathedral, the most elaborate in it's interior decorations of any like structure we ever saw. cA csJS1
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 ,a, We called at the telegraph and post office and ticketed for Ottawa, the capital of tha Dominion of Canada, distance of one hansii- and twenty miles up the Ottawa river. Took dinner at Ottawa, and went up, to. view the new Parliament buildings. We can not now recafll any public buildings in 5he United States, that are superior to them, in style of architecture,5 massiveness, and costliness. They are indeed magnificent Their splendor causes them to seem entirelyou of place here, for the country all about Ottawa is yet. you might say, 8 wilderness To be sure clearings are everywhere to be seen, but the forests of stumps show that they have not long been ''clearings," and the settlers log cabins are in sight upon all sides fromthe top of themag. niicent Parliament buildings At the west end of the city, the Ottawa river ewhich;is a navigable stream thus far) pours over what is known as the ,Chandiere Falls, thus formings an immense water power for running the score of lumber. mills located below, and to which the city of, Ottawa owes her origin and growth. bas sexz5 s ss xaq o' J sos!sea 5Gs j ss At4, p. m., we tickoted via the Canada Central R.. R., for Renfrew,a 2 distance of seventy odd miles. back into the country. Renfrew thas been the terminus of the road, but it is now being rapidly ontinued back into the wilderness. and itlis the intention of the company to complete 60 miles, this year. ! l. We had ;everywhere2 heard ', wonderful stories concerning the deer in and about Ren- sfrew. One man unexpectedly jumped over log and unexp ectedly jzngped on a. Sleeping deer, and again a half sleeping, man lay on a log watching for deer, and one knocked his hat of, by jumping over hin, D.. and many other
 
 l similar stories whiche of course tended to ex- cite our imaginative powers, We had pte. siously, andEat difsrehss times; dsst Sdffferent deer, in different sections Of the country, but ia all our experience we never knew one to step up and jump our hat off and we never had been able to steal up tola log and, .:jump on ones back P and ofscourse these stories ex- cited us fearfully, and, when. at; 9 o'clock, Monday evening, Renfrew station was called it would have caused. us no serious surprise had a deer burst in at the open door and skipped through the car. ar. s sss s.ss.,.s e3,sz \
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 aSWe disembarked and looked about on every l side. There was an occasional house in sight, but not single deer. There were logs strewn about, affording an, excellent opportunity for deer to be seen skipping over them. and sthus corrcborate and emphasize that story. The landscape, to meet our expectation and ap. proval, should have presented the animated appearance of a piece of exposed July, cheese, but not So. A painful quiet relgned. Could it be that this was Renfrew? Renfrews the ac- knowledged and advertised home of the wild deer, no, we must have stopped at the wrong station, but thereon the depot cornice were the unmistakable letters, RENFREsW., The stiffness of the place grew intense. Ha hark l look some large object approaches through the gloom, Nat must be deer and he is com I ing straight for us, and we are unarmed save \ vcifh n,tYu hnranme volcoc and . 1rnol, po.t~ot