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                  Remarks by
Allan Gilmour, Sen^r & Jun^r& William
    Ritchie on Tour from Saint John
N. B. through the United States to
      Quebec in Canada in the
             Year       1828.

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5th June 1828. Left Saint John N. B. in Steam Boat at
7 OClock & reached Eastport after a very good passage about a quarter
past 2 OClock being a distance of about 60 Miles_ On our arrival
at Eastport finding a Packet waiting a Wind for Boston, we
went on board & engaged our passage by her. The Packet is called
the Sarah of Boston 133 Tons [...] Register or 180 Tons British.
On our passage down to Eastport we had some conversation
with a M^r Smith of St. John who had Cured a quantity of Pork
there last Winter, he collected it from various quarters, but
he said the greatest part of it was bro[^t] from the head of the
Bay. it cost him 4 [...] lb & he paid for Spruce Barrels 4/- which
he said holds in Pickle as well as ash_ for Cutting & packing he paid
1/6 & other charges including Salt would amount to 4/6 more__
It was his opinion that curing Pork could be done to much better

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advantage at St. Andrews, where it is admitted by inland
Navigation from the United States duty free, - it sells there
at about 3 [...] lb.
            Friday_ Saturday & Sunday- 6^th. 7^th. & 8th June being
thick foggy weather & little or no Wind, we could not sail
& during this time we lodged at Eastport in the House of a M^r.
Pine who formerly belonged to the Province of New Brunswick
in whose house we found very good accommodation but char-
-ges are extravagantly high___
             9^th June Monday Morning having cleared we
Sailed from Eastport at 8 OClock._ Eastport is at present
in appearance an extremely dull place & a Stranger would
at first view say that little or no business was done here, but
being situated so near the British boundary & from the Number

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                                                      Water       Land
                                                      2114         153
Prescott to Ogdensburgh & back       3
         do   . Martins                                         22
Martins. Cornwall                                            28
Cornwall to Coteau de Lac
     Via S^t Regis                               41
Coteau de Lac to Cascades                              16
Cascades to La chine                       24
Lachine to Montreal                                          9
Montreal to La chine up Ottawa                          9
Lachine to P^t. Fortune
                     Via Cascades             60
P^t Fortune to Grenville                                      12
Grenville to Bytown                           59
Bytown to Hawkesbury going
4 Miles up the [Rv] Nation                67
Hawkesbury to P^t Fortune                                 12
P^t Fortune to La chine via S^t Ann       45
La chine to Montreal                                          9
Montreal to Quebec                           180
    By Steam & Boats                        2593   :      270
                        Land                        270
                                                       2863 miles

The following addresses are those
we are led to believe respectable

E.S. Beach & C^o                Rochester
T. S Wendell                       Detroit
Jn^o. Palmer                                 d^o
James Gordon                     Amherstburgh
Lewis Gordon                               d^o
Merwin Gidings & C^o            Cleveland
Sam^lThompson & C^o           Buffalo
Major [Ia] Kirby                     Fort Erie
R Thomson & C^o                         d^o
Grant & Kirby & C^o              Queenston
Geo. Keefer Thorald               near d^o
Cross & Fisher                      Long Point Lake Erie
Clarke & Street                      Fort George
John Young                                 d^o
[I.] Cawthra                           York
H. Hamilton                                 d^o
Col. Jarvis                                   d^o
John Kirby                            Kingston
John Strange                               d^o
John M^cDonald Miller            Gananoque
                                           below Kingston

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