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last parliament as the number for the Bytown District
where he resides on his own estate, and works on the
Ottawa river the finest flour mills in Canada - Mrs. McKay
had just returned from Paris where she had left her two
daughters finishing their education, and where they are
at present sighing to return to the snows of Canada.
Mr. Lamb was returning to Montreal from London, he
was a fellow passenger on board the Packet. He had acquired
a fortune by keeping a store at Montreal.
There was an other young man from the vicinity of
London, where he superintended his father's grass farm
to visit his brother's farm, and after a survey and short
residence in the country if he liked it he would give him
a sum to purchase one. A young Scotchmen from
Glasgow, who had been in the country before, and who
was sent out by a house to establish a store in Montreal
Lieutenant Symonds and myself. This we called
our party together with a young woman going to Concord
which made eight, the poor young woman never spoke
a word the whole way, we left her at Concord.

Keene. The first night we slept at a place called Keene
78 miles from Boston, there we had beef steaks for supper,
minced pies, apple sauce, roasted Potatoes and tea,
precisely what we had at Grotton for dinner six
hours before; We had travelled the last 45 miles in a sleigh
the roads commencing at that place to be encumbered
with snow. From this place nothing was to be seen but
the continued plain of snow the average depth of which