wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest!" Compelled, as I have already observed, to relinquish the companions of my youth, the friends of my bosom, and the land of my nativity, at a period in life when every hope is ardent, and every disappointment, therefore, the more keenly felt, I could not direct my attention to any thing on earth, the consideration of which would afford a moment's cessation from the melancholy that depressed my spirits and enervated all my faculties. But a sight of the splendid heavens, and of the immense expanse of waters before me, like the other grand objects in creation, gradually produced a degree of calm in my agitated bosom. I began to recount some of the advantages of which I was still possessed; and, no longer contrasting my present and former condition together, my thoughts reverted to numbers of my worthy countrymen, whom I knew, by personal observation, to be in more distressing circumstances than those in which I was placed. Pursuing with some rapidity this consideration to its legitimate results, I soon became reconciled to the appointments of Divine Providence, and dwelt with complacency on the numerous blessings which I yet enjoyed.-Yes, my friend, the same Beneficent and All-wise Being, who has given his creatures the greatest exemplification of his Loving-kindness in the Inspired Volume, has afforded other lessons of his Goodness, which, though inferior to those contained in the Sacred Records, may yet be read with advantage at all times, and nearly in every situation: The grand volume of Nature presents us with proofs of the Divine Philanthropy, written in golden characters; and it is only when we pass them by With brute unconscious gaze, that they cease to have such a soothing effect upon our spirits, as a contemplation of them was intended to produce. Overcome at length with fatigue, and with the constant operation of these conflicting reflections, I retired to my birth, and was speedily rocked to sleep by the gently undulating motion of the vessel. LETTER II. EMBARKATION-SEA-SICKNESS UNPLEASANT WEATHER DEATH OF VARIOUS CHILDREN-ARRIVAL ON THE GREAT FISHING-BANK -VIEW OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT ANTICOSTA ISLAND -DELIGHTFUL APPEARANCE OF THE ST. LAWRENCE AND ITS NUMEROUS ISLANDS-BIRD ISLES-GREEN ISLAND-INTERESTING MANNERS OF ONE OF THE FEMALE ABORIGINES ISLAND OF ORLEANS-HOSPITABLE RECEPTION ON IT-INFERIORITY OF THE SOIL AND UNPROMISING ASPECT OF THE CORN-CROPS DELIGHTFUL VIEWS FROM THE ENTRANCE OF THE BASIN AT QUEBEC FALLS OF MONTMORENCI POINT LEVI-ARRIVAĻ AT QUEBEC - TIN-COVERED HOUSES-VISIT TO THE CITY DIVER SITY OF LANGUAGE AND COSTUME COMPANY AND ENTERTAINMENTS AT AN HOTEL, &C. On the 13th of June, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, we sailed out of Cork Harbour, and, in a short time, found ourselves upon the wideAtlantic, the "sport of surging waves and blustering billows." Scarcely had we time to cast "a longing, lingering look" at the South Western coast of Ireland, before it vanished from our sight and was lost in the immensity of the ocean. а In less than an hour after we weighed anchor, all the passengers became afflicted, as if by some Circean enchantment, with that nauseous and everdreaded disorder, which is, I believe, the inevitable lot of nearly every one who becomes for the first time a sea-faring adventurer. We were distressed almost a fortnight with this unpleasant sickness during which time, not a few of the most zealous advocates of emigration wished most heartily, that they had never quitted their peaceful cottages, to encounter all the dangers and difficulties of a long voyage, and that they had not indulged in the glowing anticipation of future golden harvests, prior to which the privations to be endured were completely overlooked. The nausea renders those who are under its influence exceedingly irritable. If a modern poet had to sing the daring adventures of the agricultural heroes who plough so great a portion of the foaming main, -that they may afterwards have an opportunity of ploughing a little patch of this fertile continent,in the spirit of refinement which characterizes the present age he would omit all mention of this disorder and its unpleasant concomitants. But had the task been committed to father Homer, he would have executed it in a charming manner; and would have conveyed to his readers, in a few bold expressions, nearly as just a description of sea-sick scenery, as the celebrated caricaturist Cruikshanks has represented to spectators, in his humorous print of A Trip to Margate. This disorder seems for a season to dissolve all "the tender charities of life;" and you would have been much amused, could you have heard wives reproaching their husbands, husbands their wives, children their parents, and parents their children, - all, like good father Adam, desirous of throwing off the sin from their own shoulders. Their awkward endeavours to exculpate themselves would have made even thick-lipped musing Melancholy gather up her face into a smile." After the lapse of a fortnight, however, the whole party was in a state of convalescence, and many were restored to as perfect health as they had previously enjoyed. The weather, for the first eight or ten days of our voyage, was so extremely unpleasant, and the winds so very unfavourable that we made but little progress. After that time, the weather became milder and more agreeable; but the wind continued to blow from the West and North West, during the whole of our passage. On the 27th of July, we anchored before the city of Quebec, after a voyage of 43 days and a half. During this short period, twelve of our party were consigned to a watery grave; and we interred as many more in different islands of the St. Lawrence. All of them were children under fourteen years of age; children who, a few days before this sudden change, were cheerful and healthy, the hope and the delight of their parents. But though these bereavements are most painful to the individuals concerned, yet to the eye of an |