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A collection combines a travel narrative of a New Englander's journey to Montreal and Quebec with sharp natural description and close attention to towns, rivers, and autumn foliage. Interleaved essays address slavery and reform, arguing for abolition, civil refusal to obey unjust laws, and defending controversial anti-slavery actions. Additional pieces consider personal conduct, literary figures, and civic duty, blending lyrical observation with moral and political reflection.
“New England is by some affirmed to be an island, bounded on the north with the River Canada (so called from Monsieur Cane).”—Josselyn’s Rareties.
And still older, in Thomas Morton’s “New English Canaan,” published in 1632, it is said, on page 97, “From this Lake [Erocoise] Northwards is derived the famous River of Canada, so named, of Monsieur de Cane, a French Lord, who first planted a Colony of French in America.”