called. I had a letter to the seigneur M. Casgrain, whom I found near the ferry, busied among his workmen, in the superintendance of a new bridge to supply the place of the ferry. He received me very politely and having conducted me to a neat house facing the stream, invited me to his family supper, which in Canada as well as in the States is formed by a combination of the tea equipage with the constituent parts of a more substantial meal. He introduced me to his architect whose appearance well answered M. Casgrain’s description of « rusticus, abnormis, sapens. » The whole of his workmen, forty-five in number, were according to the custom of the country boarded and lodged in his house, and I must do them the justice to say forty-five quieter people never lodged beneath a roof. Early hours being the order of the day we retire to rest at nine
