. In old Quebec and other sketches. stable on the Atlantic shore,and drawing after him a long train ofcarriages filled with men and women on theirway to the agricultural Eldorado of the greatCanadian West. We see him flying over Cana-dian Plains, rushing through Canadian settle-ments, pawing up Canadian mountains, andawakening in his course the echoes of tenthousand craggy peaks, which had their snow-crowned summits to the skyin sublime grandeur and primeval returns laden with the productions of the. r: s AND OTHER SKETCHES. 85 glowing Orient ; and all the way along
. In old Quebec and other sketches. stable on the Atlantic shore,and drawing after him a long train ofcarriages filled with men and women on theirway to the agricultural Eldorado of the greatCanadian West. We see him flying over Cana-dian Plains, rushing through Canadian settle-ments, pawing up Canadian mountains, andawakening in his course the echoes of tenthousand craggy peaks, which had their snow-crowned summits to the skyin sublime grandeur and primeval returns laden with the productions of the. r: s AND OTHER SKETCHES. 85 glowing Orient ; and all the way along hisroute scatters them among a free, a prosperous,a happy people. And such a people ! Wherecan 3ou find their equal ? They embrace theFrenchman with the vanity, gayety, gallantryand chivalr}^ of old France ; the the straight forwardness, the businessabihty, the honesty of old Albion ; the Scotch-man with the prudence, cautiousness, andperseverance of Old Scotia, and the Irishmanwith the hospitality and generosity, the wit andhumour, the poetry and patriotism of Old character of the population of this budd-ing nation is one of which every true Canadianpatriot and philanthropist must feel justl}^proud, because we realise that w^hile underpresent auspices we are becoming a morenumerous we are also becoming a more en-lightened and contented poeple. Let us turn for a moment to the happy cir-cumstances under which we are living, andsee how everything about us is calculatedto induce private and public
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