We disembarked from the steam-boat at Montreal, and after conveying my family, with old Mrs. Paddock and her two younger grandsons, to an hotel, I went in quest of a gentleman to whom I had letters of introduction, and by his advice applied to a forwarding-agent, to whom I consigned our luggage, and gave the same instructions as at Quebec, respecting the followers from Glasgow.

By this arrangement, which was all effected in less than an hour, we were in a condition to proceed. The three elder Evelyns were to be sent on with the baggage, and their grandmother, with the two younger ones, I invited to accompany us in a stage-coach, which I hired for the purpose, to the village of Lachine, where the steamboat plies across the mouth of the Ottowa to Upper Canada.

As it was early still in the day, and we were tired of sailing, it was agreed that we should dine at Montreal, and not proceed to Lachine till the evening. This afforded us an opportunity of seeing the city, and of supplying ourselves with several articles necessary to our woodland operations, particularly axes, which are said to be obtained better at Montreal than in any other town in the two provinces. At my wife's suggestion, I also purchased a piece of the country-made cloth, which, though not commendable for the hue, was, as she observed, stout and well made, and would make comfortable forest-dresses, as trees were not censorious about colours or fashions.