A Tour through North America by Patrick Shirreff

_Journey from Montreal to Hamilton-Separation of Friends-Rideau Canal-Emigrants passing up the St Lawrence-Massena-Waddington-Ogdensburgh-Lake of the Thousand Isles-Andrew Dinwoodie, a Farmer from Dumfries-shire-Live-stock from England-Innkeeper of Kingston-Great Britain Steamer-Emigrant Passengers-John By Steamer._

Having long made up my mind to visit the western parts of Upper Canada, and the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri, it was necessary to separate from my companion, in whose company I had spent so many happy hours, and to whose disinterested friendship I owe more than it will ever be in my power to repay. It was arranged that he should take my trunk and portmanteau to New York, to wait my arrival there, having experienced the inconvenience of attempting to take luggage through a thinly-peopled district. I reserved a plain suit of clothes, which had already become shabby. Packing two shirts of cotton, and one of flannel, five collars, five pair of cotton stockings, and a dressing-case, into a small leathern cloak-bag which my friend had used for buckling behind his saddle in Scotland, I left Montreal on the 18th of August; having arranged to be at certain places on fixed days, so as to reach New York in the first week of November. My friend left Montreal some hours before me, on a visit to New Glasgow, and, after seeing Quebec, travelled by Lake Champlain to New York, and reached England on the 17th September.