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Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajouttes deau Canal was the only safe and crtiuacions route After enjoying his silary /or honie time in that lldevised plan, would it then have been credited, fhat iu the year 1837, after the use of the Uideau Canal had been clearly proven, — by the voyage of a vessel of 100 tons up that Canal from Quebec, round Lake Ontario (as late as •i7th Nov., 18:J5), and down the Rapids back to ran, a distance of nearly 2000 miles, in vessels of 100 1 IIS, proved to be tit for any sea, and of its inunediaie advantajjes, as set forth in my pamphlet published in March, ISo.'i, — Mr. Macaulay now comes forward (beiiiff paid all the time for detailing his wisdom) to propose that seven Commissioners should be named, to spend a few more millions I suppose, on can ils ; and perhaps to let them fall into the hands of some company, as in the case of the Rideau line, who will tow none hut their own l);»r}res, and they will not venture to cross the Lakes, thus keepinv up transshipment at Montreal and Kingston. It is really disheartening to think that this great channel of intercourso is neglected for railway schemes to the inooD, and St. Lawrence Canals for East Indiamen. Really, it is a fact, which cannot bo doubted, that nearly all Canada improvements are marred by self- interested views, falsely estimated, — for undoubtedly the best self-interest would be the {general interest, especially in this matter ; and is there any Commis- sioner or other person that will deny, that before any more bungling like the past is attempted, by means of new Commissioners, the route now open, — far superior to any in the United Stales for mag- nitude and cheapness, without any transshipment, — should, in the first instance, be rendered available. Rtnder, will it hp believed':' Ltijislatorfi of Canada do you not khow^ that one small steam tow-boat is all that is wanted to open this great navigation, if the Rideau Company still refuse to tow any other than their own barges ! ! [n the face of all this, and in the face of an offer made to the Upper Caiiada Legislature last session, to ascend all the Hapids of the St. Lawrence >ii one bottom, to cost only €7000, —if this gentleman's generally-admitted wise rpcoramendatioiis are adop- ted, we may have the mortification to live to see £7000 spent for the purpose of obtainuig the opini- om of the seven tvisi: men, whom favour may select, and after waiting 10 or 12 years iongor, may also live to see the St. Lawrence (vaituls deserted for the only one that ought, from the first, to have been adopted, and that one is from Hungerford Bav, be- low .Tohustown 10 I'pper Canada, to the Petite Nation river below Hawkesbury, on the Ottawsi river, — the cost of which would bo less than the Cornwall section, or the Lower Canada section, on the St. Lawretuo, besides avoiding all its rapids, and all but one of those on the Ottawa. But this will not suit local interests, and ten to one if it would the views, not to mention the interi;sts of the seven wise men whom it might be thought fit to ap- point. The appointment of interested Commissioners, cunningly devised by locally interested Legislators, it was perceived the Saint Lawrence Association would, by its enquiries into the best plans, have set at naught; therefore it was opposed, but it may yet be revived. JAMES GEORGE. Quebec, 9th Feb., 1837. *#* Let the cost of five vessels, of 100 tons each, fit for this trade, be stated, — say £1,500, — their freight tip and down fiist trip j£2,000, — it can be done in three weeks. A ship of 500 tons, equal to five barges, will c()st''£ >€,00t i ,= - freight, if on voyage to Great Britain,''£-5iO0«* only ; as they generally return in ballast, nothing certain can b? allowed, aud this will take three months at least. J. G. / */v^A. 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