CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 119 nation to that branch of the Green Mountains which divides the waters of Lake Champlain from the sources of the Yamaska and St. Francis, and is similar to that of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The spectator occupies, as it were, the centre of a circle, whose circumference extends before his eyes upwards of sixty miles in almost every direction. In one direction he finds the Green Mountains of Vermont, Lake Champlain stretching along its slug gish length until it is cut off by the visible horizon, or the blue hills that crowd the north-eastern frontier of the State of New York. In another direction, when the state of the atmosphere is favourable, he can trace the St. Lawrence, after receiving into its capacious channel at Sorel the waters of the Richelieu, wending its shining current until it is lost in the distance ; or he can trace the majestic river upwards to Montreal and Lachine, and some twenty or thirty miles farther up. Again, reverting to Sorel, he can trace the Richelieu to Chambly, thence to St. John’s, and onwards to the Upper end of Lake Champlain. We have not brought under notice beyond a third part of the extensive prospect which the spectator commands from the summit of Belocil. Hence, besides, he over looks a vast woodland, intersected by numerous strips of cultivated fields, and thickly studded with neat villages and churches. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND ATLANTIC RAIL-ROAD TO ST. HILAIRE AND ST. HYACINTHE. ' This railroad, the completion of which is regarded as an event of paramount importance to Canada generally and to Montreal especially, was opened as far as St. Hyacinthe on the 26th of last December, (1848). Passengers are conveyed in a steam-boat from Montreal to the Company’s Wharf at Longueuil. The Depot here is large and handsome, two hundred and thirty feet long by sixty. The offices and waiting-rooms are fitted up on a scale of great con venience. The engine-house, wliich is ninety-four feet long by fifty-