Excerpt from Littell's Living Age, Vol. 72: January, February, March, 1862 Does any reader start at our choosing the middle of a broad and mighty river as a rendezvous for horses and sleighs, and find involuntary images of Pharaoh and his best (with their chariot wheels already taken off) crowding into his mind? To such be it told that during many months of the year the frozen Canadian rivers are as highways to the countries through which they pass, as boulevards to the towns upon their banks ay, and boulevards with avenues on them too, for no invention being yet perfected fog supplying them with gas-lamps, the be nighted traveller is guided along their short est or most frequented routes by rows of pines of decent growth, cut from the neigh boring forest aud planted bodily in the ice, where, embalmed by frost and snow, they perform the role of most respectable live trees till the thaws of April or May involve them and their soil in a common ruin. Among these trees, and upon the magnificent open roadway which they garnished, was it arranged that our party should assemble, there to await further orders, like an out ward-bound fleet, to which the admiral can not divulge the contents of his papers till after twenty-four hours' sail from harbor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.