Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: - - ‘land – to St. John, Newfoundland. (Cheers) We sometimes complain of our inland navi- gation, that we have it free but half the year round, but what it lacks at one season it amply comptnsates by its vast capacity. (Cheers.) Last summer, when we visited Halifax in the Queen Victoria, which the good people of that blockade running strong- hold mistook for a Confederate cruiser, we were the better part of a week steaming away, always in British American waters, within sight of the bold and beautiful coasts, which it was our privilege to call our own. (Cheers.) While we were thus following our river system to the open sea, I could not help often recurring to the vast extent of the whole. If any hon. gentleman who has never made, and who cannot find time to make, a journey through his own country, will only go to the library he will find an excellent substitute for such a voyage in Keith Johnston’s Physical Atlas, a book that when one opens its leaves his brain opens with the book. (Laughter.) He will find that our matchless St. Lawrence drains an area of 298,000 square miles, of which only 94,000 are cccupied by the five great lakes taken together. I shall not attempt to tread in the path of my two friends who sit next me (Hon. Messrs. Galt aud Brown) by ex- hibiting in any detail the prospects of mutual commercial advantages opened up by this union: I have prepared a statement on this subject, giving certain general results, – which I do not present as complete, but only as proximately correct – and which I now beg to read to the House: – 1i I i i i iREPRESENTATION. iS1!’. 1 H JO CO OS rH O i – i -f CO CO i – ‘t-TtCttTi tor-t o. CO O p-l r-i1-t O W Ok O O -; Ci l Ci Cl ='COI t A u loe calculatione respecting pop- 1 1 [alation mad upon the censui of 186…