Ocean to Ocean. By the Rev. George M. Grant, of
Halifax, U.S. (Sampson Low and Co.)--In July, 1871, British Columbia entered " The Dominion," and on the same day surveying parties left Victoria for various points of the Rocky Mountains, and surveys were com- menced from the Upper Ottawa westward and all along the line. " In the summer of the same year," Mr. Grant tells us, in his introductory chapter, " Sandford Fleming, the engineer-in-chief, considered it necessary to travel overland, to see the main features of the country, and the writer of these pages accompanied him as secretary." The journey occupied three months, during which each of the travellers kept a full record of the chief things which they saw and heard, and of the impressions which they formed. This very readable book presents the result of their method of observation, in the shape of a close, full, and interesting description of all that was seen by men whose business it was to see everything, during a journey of " a thousand miles up the St. Lawrence; another thousand on great lakes, and a wilderness of lakelets and streams ; a thousand miles across prairies and up the valley of the Saskatchewan, and nearly a thousand through woods and over great ranges of mountains," all forming a single colony of the British Empire. While there is not much in the book which in the historical or the picturesque sense is new to us, there is a great deal of practical and statistical information calculated to be very valuable to emigrants to and dwellers in Canada.
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