I had on a previous occasion gone down the St. Lawrence, through
the Thousand Isles and over the Rapids, in one of those large
summer steamboats which ply upon the lake and river. I cannot say
that I was much struck by the scenery, and therefore did not
encroach upon my time by making the journey again. Such an opinion
will be regarded as heresy by many who think much of the Thousand
Islands. I do not believe that they would be expressly noted by
any traveler who was not expressly bidden to admire them.
From Toronto we went across to Niagara, re-entering the States at
Lewiston, in New York.
CHAPTER VI.
THE CONNECTION OF THE CANADAS WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
When the American war began troops were sent out to Canada, and
when I was in the provinces more troops were then expected. The
matter was much talked of, as a matter of course, in Canada, and it
had been discussed in England before I left. I had seen much said
about it in the English papers since, and it also had become the
subject of very hot question among the politicians of the Northern
States. The measure had at that time given more umbrage to the
North than anything else done or said by England from the beginning
of the war up to that time, except the declaration made by Lord
John Russell in the House of Commons as to the neutrality to be
preserved by England between the two belligerents.
