whose authority I have more than once quoted. It would be misplaced in me, to enter into descriptions of scenery to you, and especially of that which I have myself not seen; but the tour in question is represented as comprising bodies of scenery so varied, yet so continuously delightful, that any previous imagination of it will be surpassed by the reality. In other respects too than scenery, the localities of this tour must have powers to interest you highly. Six or seven weeks, or less, may suffice for a convenient survey of the most remarkable objects comprehended in it. The shores of the St. Lawrence river, from Kingston to Quebec, distance three hundred and eighty miles, exhibit, it is said, such combinations of the "sublime and beautiful," and so diversified a spectacle at almost every point of view, by the different ways in which the two are blended together and contrasted, that nothing at all equal, or approaching to the same, for impressiveness upon a traveller for the first time, is to be found in any other part of North America; and particularly so, as along this tract of country, whatever there is that is grand or beautiful in nature, must be viewed in connexion with the many and great improvements made, in point of cultivation and increase of the land's produce, which have, within a very few years, started forward as by magic:-But, it behoves me to stop, and to beseech your pardon for any mention, I may superfluously have made, both here and elsewhere, of matters which may have become familiar to you, from other sources. I was aware of all I am risking, before I began, so, be pleased, in favour of the motive that governs through the whole, if of nothing else, to vouchsafe a good reception to the following PLAN OF A TOUR. Philadelphia to New York; thence to Albany. Thence, along the Mohawk and Seneca rivers. Canandaigua to Buffalo. of the grand canal, at Taking your survey its most remarkable points. Along Lake Erie, by steam boat, to Detroit. Return to Buffalo: and the Niagara Strait, if passed before, will again be passed, and the scene be contemplated with renewed pleasure. Lewistown or Queenstown, by Steam Boat. Along Lake Ontario, to Sackets Harbour. Sackets Harbour and Kingston, to Quebec, distance three hundred and eighty miles. La te art se Return, by Richelieu river, Lake Champlain, and the Hudson, to Albany, and New York, and Philadelphia. Miles. Cape Vincent, enter the St. Lawrence river, 20 1367 Brockville C. Morrisville Great Gallop Islands, 5 1434 Lower end of same, Hamilton, U. S. Lat. 45° St. Regis, U. S. Corn wall, C. 9 1443 10 1453 35 1488 YOUR old horticultural acquaintance and protégé, A. B. is still at . . and doing, I hope, pretty well. He may, with great truth, be said to " deserve well" of the country, which he hath made to be irrevocably "his." He has contributed both to improve and populate it. The art he professes was, prior to his time, little attended to, and as little understood, in that neighbourhood. Now, the reverse is the case. He found apt pupils. But the evil of it, for poor B. has been, that he could not, from confined circumstances render his talents and industry profitable to himself and family, in proportion to the benefits they have conferred upon others. However, I believe that he is gradually getting forward, though now in the midst of a competition, which his knowledge and instruction have brought into existence. I omit describing changes, and degrees of change, in the aspect of our good city of Philadelphia, since you left it; willing rather to leave some of our novelties untouched, to have the power of striking you, with what force they may, at your return. One thing |