Western Wanderings Author:William Henry Giles Kingston 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: LOCKS AT KINGSTON MILLS. CHAPTER III. The skies of Toronto with genial smiles bade us farewell, and several friends also came to offer us their kind a... more »dieus, as, on Saturday, the 29th of October, we embarked at noon on board the steamer Arabian, bound for Kingston. We left Toronto with a warm, kindly feeling towards it and those it contains, hoping to return some day to see both it and them again. During our stay we have received nothing but kindness and attention, without a single contretemps to blunt the edge of our regard. We had very few passengers on board, twelve or fourteen only appeared at table, so that we were more quiet and leisurely in our proceedings during meals than we had been since reaching America. Captain Colkely was a model of politeness, and his dinner-service and the dinner he placed before us were excellent. As soon as we got on the outside of the long spit which forms the harbour I took a sketch of the city, rising up from the water, and backed by a fringe of pine-trees. With the numerous spires of its churches, its colleges, and other public buildings, it already has assumed a somewhat imposing appearance, to which every year of its existence will rapidly add. The north shore, along which we kept our course, consists chiefly of a clay cliff of some height, fringed with trees, with, at short intervals, a succession of farms and clearings. We ' O touched at several places, chiefly small villages,— some, perhaps, destined shortly to rise to the dignity of towns. The sun was just setting as we reached Port Hope, a small town situated on the sides and at the bottom of a valley opening down to the lake. It contains about three thousand inhabitants, and several grist-mills, breweries, distilleries, tanneries, carding and fulling-mills, an...« less