. Lake Superior to the Sea. portance. Opposite Lachine is Caughnawaga, founded in 1721, as a walledcity, and now an Iroquois reservation. Lachine is reached and passed, and about fifteen minutes laterwe are descending the famous Lachine Rapids. Falling fifty-six feet in their course of less than two miles, andpossessing the most intricate and winding channel of all of the remark-able series, the ridges of rock rising alternately to left and right, theLachine Rapids are navigated safely only through the exercise ofconsummate skill. But this skill is an accepted condition, fornowhere in the worl
. Lake Superior to the Sea. portance. Opposite Lachine is Caughnawaga, founded in 1721, as a walledcity, and now an Iroquois reservation. Lachine is reached and passed, and about fifteen minutes laterwe are descending the famous Lachine Rapids. Falling fifty-six feet in their course of less than two miles, andpossessing the most intricate and winding channel of all of the remark-able series, the ridges of rock rising alternately to left and right, theLachine Rapids are navigated safely only through the exercise ofconsummate skill. But this skill is an accepted condition, fornowhere in the world, perhaps, can be found a more skillful navigatorthan the pilot of the St. Lawrence. Sailing downward, we experience a delightful sense of exhilaration,occasioned partly by the really perceptible feeling of descent, and toa degree by the appearance of the broken rocks and surging waters. Passing under the Victoria Jubilee Bridge, the greatest engineeringfeat of its day, we leave the heavily wooded shores of Nuns Island Jta. A View of Canadas Metropolis with the Bank of Montreal in the Foreground Lake Superior to the Sea 51 behind us and steam into the magnificent harbor of Montreal, themetropolis of Canada, and one of the greatest seaports on the continent. There have been many cities in America that have grown up inthe last century, magnificent tributes to our civilization, but few,indeed, that have undergone such revolutionary changes as theromantic old city of Montreal, which, under two flags, has played soimportant a role in New World history. Although visited by Jacques Cartier in 1535, Montreal was notfounded until more than a century later, when Paul de Chomedy,Sieur de Maisonneuve, established, on behalf of the Montreal Company,the religious community of Ville-Marie, which its sponsors fondlyhoped was destined to become a Kingdom of God in the New World. From its foundation, Ville-Marie had a checkered career, its firstinhabitants suffering terrible hardships and livin
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