Summer homes among the green hills of Vermont, islands and shores of Lake Champlain, Adirondacks and Canada, reached by the popular Green Mountain route .. . The bridge is known as theNew Victoria Jubilee Bridge. It is about one and one-halfmiles in length and there is not another bridge in Canada equalto it. was founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain onQUEBEC the site of the Indian village of Stadacono. No city on this continent so impresses the traveler bythe startling peculiarities of the site and novelty of its general Dont Fail to Read the Selected list of first-class Family Homes and Hot
Summer homes among the green hills of Vermont, islands and shores of Lake Champlain, Adirondacks and Canada, reached by the popular Green Mountain route .. . The bridge is known as theNew Victoria Jubilee Bridge. It is about one and one-halfmiles in length and there is not another bridge in Canada equalto it. was founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain onQUEBEC the site of the Indian village of Stadacono. No city on this continent so impresses the traveler bythe startling peculiarities of the site and novelty of its general Dont Fail to Read the Selected list of first-class Family Homes and Hotels forSummer Boarders following Descriptive. 70 THE SPORTSMAN S PARADISE. aspect as this Ancient Capital, or stamps its impress so indeliblyon the eye and memory. A massive wall of hewn stone, ofnearly three miles in length, and varying, but everwhere offorbidding height and thickness, with projecting bastions andfrowning cannon, encloses the better part of the Upper Town,and has led to Quebec being called the Great Walled City ofthe North. The citadel, will, perhaps, prove the point ofgreatest interest to many, from the historical associations con-. ST. LOUIS GATE, QUEBEC. nected therewith, and from the fact that it is considered an im-pregnable fortress. It covers an enclosed area of forty acres,and is some 340 feet above the river level. The zigzag passagethrough which you enter the fortress, between high and massivegranite walls, is swept at every turn by formidable batteries ofheavy guns. On the forbidding river walls, and at each angleor possible commanding point, guns of heavy calibre sweepevery avenue of approach by river. Ditches, breastworks andfrowning batteries command the approaches by land from thefamed Plains of Abraham. The percipitous bluffs, rising al-most perpendicular from the river 340 feet, present a naturalbarrier which may be swept with murderous fire, and the cov- Dont Fail to Read tbe Selected list of first-class Family Homes and Hotels forSummer Boar
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