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different families also have battles, and occasionally the Irish fight
with the Canadians. The latter, however, are much the more peaceable,
never quarrelling among themselves, and seldom with their neighbors.
They are frugal, and often go back to Canada with considerable sums of
money. B------ has gained much influence both with the Irish and the
French,--with the latter, by dint of speaking to them in their own
language. He is the umpire in their disputes, and their adviser, and
they look up to him as a protector and patron-friend. I have been struck
to see with what careful integrity and wisdom he manages matters among
them, hitherto having known him only as a free and gay young man. He
appears perfectly to understand their general character, of which he
gives no very flattering description. In these huts, less than twenty
feet square, he tells me that upwards of twenty people have sometimes
been lodged.
A description of a young lady who had formerly been insane, and now felt
the approach of a new fit of madness. She had been out to ride, had
exerted herself much, and had been very vivacious.
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