had sent orders not to go in consequence of so few passengers,
but that they certainly should go to-morrow, when they expected more
passengers as there were races at Three Rivers. I and Ready from Bermuda
sauntered about till dusk. This is one of the miseries of travelling, to
be delayed in some little uninteresting place, or after you have seen
all that is worth notice, of which there is very little in Montreal;
fortunately the hotel is good enough, everything remarkably clean.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23RD.

Rose at seven, no inducement to get up sooner. Called at the stage
office to enquire about the Post Office and if they knew any Mr.
Webster; was told he had left last night, tired of the place, no wonder!
Employed all day reading the newspapers; an Indian came down by the
wharf in a canoe to sell, asked ten dollars for it; found Major Penn,
London; Messrs. White and Livingstone came up. The heat at 4 o'clock 96
degrees, but have passed the day very quietly in a shaded news-room. In
addition to the _St. George_ there is the Canadian steamer the _Eagle_
so that I shall surely get away. Was informed that the weather has been
unusually hot since the beginning of July, without rain. Whilst in the
news-room the chief conversation was the cholera; one of the gentlemen
at table said the fear of it had driven away 30 or 40 people from this
house; surprised to find myself so comfortable under all these
circumstances. Went on board the _St. George_ steamer at eight, a noble
vessel beautifully fitted up. On setting off a woman was taken on shore,
a young man looked very dismal, and said she was taken with the cholera;
she proved to have got into a wrong boat which I took care to inform the
young man.

THURSDAY, JULY 24TH.

Rose at five having rested very well, though I suspected the bed-clothes
not being dry. Went on shore at Three Rivers and into the market;
Indians selling coloured baskets; a good supply of eggs and vegetables,
also square lumps of sugar made from the maple. Bought a few red
currants, notwithstanding the cholera; a number of canoes with different
kinds of fish; the eels thicker than ours; just in time for the steamer,
will not cut it so fine again. This morning almost chilly; yesterday at
4, 95 degrees and at six, 81. The shores on each side are lined with
neat cottages. Good coffee and bread. Soon after nine the eccentric
collar of one of the engines broke, so that we shall be some hours late;
the other en