12mo, 20cm, the first edition, in 2 volumes., xi,321,[l(ad)] & viii,336pp., original green patterned cloth, neatly rebacked with the original spines laid down, gilt spine titles, the front free fly has 2 large chips, otherwise very good to fine set in publisher's original binding. (cdn) Charles Latrobe, author of The Alpenstock, was a "confessed cascade hunter". He pierced into Canada twice during his American tour, once crossing from Buffalo to Niagara and back via London to Detroit, the other time crossing the mountains of northern Maine through to the valley of the Chaudire, proceeding to the Falls on the Saint-Maurice, Grand'Mre, "Shawinnegane", and the little falls at Les Chats, and back to the American side. In Upper Canada, chatting with Indians at the Moravian mission, he noted sadly that most wore European costume, with the exception of the aged Old Boar, who wore "leggins and a scalp lock". London he glumly dismissed; he agreed with his friend Washington Irving that the Canad