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Chapter III.--_What is to be done on landing at Quebec?_ If you are a rich
man, see sights; if you have not money to throw away, do not stay one hour
in Quebec, or in any other town, longer than you can possibly avoid, "but
get your luggage on board the Montreal steam-boat, and be off if possible
in ten minutes after anchor has been let go;--for by daudling about Quebec,
Montreal, Kingston, and York, you will spend more money and lose more time,
than, if properly employed, might have lodged and fed yourself and family
during the first and worst year of your residence in the new world." In
the choice of land, the writer recommends the Huron tract:--"It has been
objected by some, that this tract of country is _out of the world_; but no
place can be considered in that light, to which a steam-boat can come; and
on this continent, if you find a tract of good land, and open it for sale,
the world will very soon come to you. Sixteen years ago, the town of
Rochester consisted of a tavern and a blacksmith's shop--it is now a town
containing upwards of 16,000 inhabitants.
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