I Went Down Lake
Ontario In The Highlander; Mr. Forrest Met Me On The Wharf, And In A Few
Hours I Was Again Warmly Welcomed At His Hospitable House.
My relics of my visit to Niagara consisted of a few Indian curiosities,
and a printed certificate filled up with my name, [Footnote:
"Niagara
Falls, C. W.: Register Office, Table Rock. - This is to certify, that Miss
- - has passed behind the Great Falling Sheet of Water to Termination
Rook, being 230 feet behind the Great Horse-shoe Fall. - Given under my
hand this 13th day of - - , 1854. - THOMAS BARNETT."] stating that I had
walked for 230 feet behind the great fall, which statement, I was assured
by an American fellow-traveller, was "a sell right entirely, an almighty
all-fired big flam."
CHAPTER XII.
A scene at starting - That dear little Harry - The old lady and the race -
Running the Rapids - An aside - Snow and discomfort-A new country - An
extemporised ball - Adventure with a madman - Shooting the cataract - First
appearance of Montreal - Its characteristics - Quebec in a fog - "Muffins" -
Quebec gaieties - - The pestilence - Restlessness - St. Louis and St. Roch -
The shady side - Dark dens - External characteristics - Lord Elgin - Mistaking
a senator.
The Arabian, by which I left Toronto, was inferior to any American
steamer I had travelled in. It was crowded with both saloon and steerage
passengers, bound for Cobourg, Port Hope, and Montreal. It was very
bustling and dirty, and the carpet was plentifully sprinkled with tobacco-
juice. The captain was very much flustered with his unusually large living
cargo, but he was a good-hearted man, and very careful, having, to use his
own phrase, "climbed in at the hawse-holes, and worked his way aft,
instead of creeping in at the cabin window with his gloves on." The
stewards were dirty, and the stewardess too smart to attend to the
comforts of the passengers.
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