and, returning back a short while after they had left our host's
house, was glad to be of use in picking them up from a ditch into
which their carriage had been upset. To me it appeared all but
miraculous that any carriage should make its way over that road
without such misadventure. I may perhaps be allowed to hope that
the discomfiture of these worthy legislators may lead to some
improvement in the thoroughfare.

I had on a previous occasion gone down the St. Lawrence, through
the Thousand Isles and over the Rapids, in one of those large
summer steamboats which ply upon the lake and river. I cannot say
that I was much struck by the scenery, and therefore did not
encroach upon my time by making the journey again. Such an opinion
will be regarded as heresy by many who think much of the Thousand
Islands. I do not believe that they would be expressly noted by
any traveler who was not expressly bidden to admire them.

From Toronto we went across to Niagara, re-entering the States at
Lewiston, in New York.



CHAPTER VI.

THE CONNECTION OF THE CANADAS WITH GREAT BRITAIN.


When the American war began troops were sent out to Canada, and
when I was in the provinces more troops were then expected. The
matter was much talked of, as a matter of course, in Canada, and it