be a little place, when there were two such towns as Quebec and Montreal. Mr. Campbell answered my looks:

"When the provinces were joined together, Quebec would have been offended, if Montreal had

been made the capital; and Montreal would have thought it hard to have to give way to Quebec. So it was agreed to take a little place, of which neither could be jealous: I believe that the plan has answered very well."

8. 'Soon after passing the mouth of the

Ottawa, we lost the St. Lawrence. Instead of it, we had on our left, all the way to Toronto, a vast sheet of water-the last in order, though the first we came to, in going up the river, of the great chain of lakes, into which it spreads out.

9. “This is Ontario," said Mr. Campbell, “the smallest of the five, but the one that has the grandest sight of all to show, the Falls of Niagara. We must spare a day, to go from Toronto to see them."

10. I've seen them, Johnny, but I can't describe them. I've not got over the effect of that huge mass of water, rolling slowly to the brink of the fall, and then plunging over it with a thundering roar, down—I don't know how many feet— to the depths below.

II. ""See!" said Mr. Campbell, "all the water that flows out of the upper lakes is collected in Erie, and it must find its way out by this stream, the Niagara so, no wonder there is such a volume of it :-summer or winter, rain or drought, snow or thaw, all make no difference to it."

12. I enjoyed this morning, more than any day since I left home, especially when we stood on the brink of the great Horse-shoe Fall, and scrambled far enough down to see the rainbow in the spray, and feel the spray itself blowing on our faces!'

V. THE GREAT CHAIN OF LAKES.

'Winnipeg, September 3.

I. 'I SHOULD have liked to go on from Toronto along the shores of Lake Erie, to the most southerly point of Canada. But Mr. Campbell thought it better to go westward at once, to a little place called Collingwood, on Lake Huron, and then take passage in a steamer.

2. 'It was a beautiful sail, and luckily the weather was calm and bright. For on these great lakes, it is sometimes as rough as in the Atlantic. They don't look like lakes! In the middle of them, you can't see the land: they are great inland seas, joined together by narrow straits, and with the stream of the St. Lawrence running through them from end to end.

3. At first we were in a bay-Georgia Bay— full of wooded islets: then, we came out into the open lake, and soon after I could just see its southern shores.

"It's United States ground there," said Mr. Campbell. "Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Superior, are all boundary lakes: one side is British, the other American. The fifth lake, Michigan, is American altogether. You can see the entrance to it on

your left. Our course is through this strait, St. Mary's River, as it is called, into Lake Superior, the king of lakes."

4. 'The narrow channel was more like a chain of small lakes than a river. I was quite glad to be so near the land again; and the rocky banks were very beautiful, with trees at the top, glowing with autumn tints.

5. "All that northern shore," he said, "and a good deal more to the westward, is Canada -the upper province, now called Ontario. A grand country! I'm not sure, if I had my choice, whether I would rather settle here, or in New Zealand. New Zealand has a better climate; but I should enjoy the winter here. And there's plenty to do-cutting down timber, and sending it down the St. Lawrence; clearing your fields, and growing corn for the English market; feeding great herds of cattle; some copper-mining, if I had a fancy for it. No gold, I believe; a little silver; some coal, though not just hereabouts; and the North-West, and the Rocky Mountains, close at hand, when I wanted a change. You'd better think of it, Charlie, before you go to join Jack in New Zealand."

6. 'I laughed, and said: "Then, Mr. Campbell, you would have to come with me, and look after me. I see there are some natives here."