tal!

I must not, however, omit to inform my readers that at Toronto I
received a letter from a "Brother Author," who was polite enough to send
me several specimens of his poetry; stating the remarkable fact, that he
had never written a verse until he was past forty-five years of age; and
that, as to the unfair accusation of his having plagiarised from Byron,
it was not true, for he never had read Byron in his life. Having put
the reader in possession of these facts, I shall now select one of his
printed poems for his gratification:--

From the Regard the Author has for the
LADIES OF TORONTO,
He presents them with the following
ODE.
_To the Ladies of the City of Toronto_.

1.
How famed is our city
For the beauty and talents
Of our ladies, that's pretty
And _chaste_ in their _sentiments_.

2.
The ladies of Toronto
Are fine, noble, and charming,
And are a great memento
To all, most fascinating.

3.
Our ladies are the best kind,
Of all others the most fine;
In their manners and their minds
Most refined and _genuine_.

4.
We are proud of our ladies,
For they are superior
To all other beauties
And others are inferior.

5.
How favoured is our land
To be honoured with the fair,
That is so majestic grand!
And to please them is our care.

6.
Who would not choose them before
All others that's to be found,
And think of others no more?
Their like is not in the world round.

TS TORONTO, 21st Jan. 1837.

VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

Through Lake Ontario to Montreal, by rail road to Lake Champlain, and
then by steamboat to Burlington.

Burlington is a pretty county town on the border of the Lake Champlain;
there is a large establishment for the education of boys kept here by
the Bishop of Vermont, a clever man: it is said to be well conducted,
and one of the best in the Union. The bishop's salary, as bishop, is
only five hundred dollars; as a preacher of the established church he
receives seven hundred; whilst as a schoolmaster his revenue becomes
very handsome. The bishop is just now in bad odour with the _majority_,
for having published some very sensible objections to the Revivals and
Temperance Societies.

Plattsburg.--This was the scene of an American triumph. I was talking
with a States officer, who was present during the whole affair, and was
much amused with his description of it. There appeared to be some
fat