APPENDIX. THE OTTAWA, CALEDONIA SPRINGS, BYTOWN, ETC. As the romantic scenery of the Ottawa, especially in the neigh bourhood of Bytown, and the benefits resulting from the use of the Caledonia Springs, deservedly induce numerous tourists and invalids to visit these localities every season, we subjoin a brief notice. With this view the passenger will leave the terminus of the Rail-road at Montreal for Lachinc at eight, A. M. At Lachine he embarks in the steamer for Point Fortune, which is distant upwards of forty miles on the south side of the Ottawa. He proceeds for a short time along the north shore of the expansion of the St. Lawrence, called Lake St. Louis, passing on the right Pointc Claire, and to the left Isle Perrot, so called after the Sieur to whom it was originally grant ed. The island is seven miles long by three in width, is tolerably well cultivated, and has ferries to the Island of Montreal and the mainland. It contains a church. At the south-western extremity of the Island of Montreal, the traveller passes through the St. Anne’s lock, thus avoiding the Rapid celebrated in the ‘ Canadian Boat Song,’* and enters the Lake of Two Mountains, into which the * On account of the frequent communication betwixt the islands and mainland at the confluences of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence, great numbers of Canadian habitant along the shores, instead of at tending to agricultural pursuits, follow the occupation of voyageun. They are much employed in managing the large rafts of lumber that are yearly floated down the Ottawa and St. Lawrence to Que bec, and many accompany the arduous expeditions of the officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company to the North West. The flourishing village that surrounds the church of St. Anne mainly owes its exis •