To Mary Matilda Georgiana Howard, 17 July 1842 Box 1, Folder 7
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I am going to plunge out of the region of posts and conveyances - If you have any maps that can at all give you an idea of my progress... I return to Toronto tomorrow, then cross by Lake Simcoe to [Pentaquishire?] where our canoe life begins. You are aware that though this may not be speedy, it is an eminently safe mode of conveyance. I liked my 4 days at Quebec extremely & increasingly. It is quite a place to give one the marathon & Jones feeling of Johnson & the effect on me one brilliant afternoon as I sat reading very well written accounts of Wolfe's death under the retired shade in a public garden, just opposite the pillar raised to commemorate him, the band of the guards playing at a little distance beyond... Then there was a full parade of the Guards for Sir C. Bagot,... to see those fine men... all brough over from the far Atlantic, marching under the banners inscribed with the victories of Spain, Waterloo, & upon the ramparts of Quebec beneath which with the loss of 45 men we transferred the dominion of a continent. The Patterson's & all other timber merchants bewail themselves over Sir Robert's tariff.