. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . rist may resume thejourney by rail, if satiated with steamboating; but those who havenever made the trip through the rapids will desire to remain on theboat to the finish at Montreal. Between Prescott and Montrealthere are a
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . rist may resume thejourney by rail, if satiated with steamboating; but those who havenever made the trip through the rapids will desire to remain on theboat to the finish at Montreal. Between Prescott and Montrealthere are a number of rapids, among them being the Long Sault,Cedars and Cascades; but the most famous of all, are of course the RJLPIDS. Lachine is nine miles from Montreal, and is a deservedlyfavorite summer resort; it was so named by Champlain in 1613,because he believed that beyond the rapids the river led to China(La Chine). The passage of these rapids, the most interesting onthe St. Lawrence, is thus graphically described: Suddenly ascene of wild grandeur burst upon the eye. Waves are lashed intospray and into breakers of a thousand forms by the submergedrocks, which they are dashed against in the headlong impetuosityof the river. Whirlpools, a storm-lashed sea, the chasm belowNiagara, all mingle their sublimity in a single rapid. Now passing 48 SUMMER with lightning speed within a few yards of rocks, which, did yourvessel but touch them, would reduce her to an utter wreck beforethe crash could sound upon the ear; did she even diverge in theleast from her course,—ifher head were not keptstraight with the course ofthe rapid,—she would be in-stantly submerged and rolledover and over. Before us isan absolute precipice of wa-ters; on every side of it break-ers, like dense avalanches,are thrown high into the we can take a glance atthe scene, the boat descendsthe wall of waves and foam like a bird, and in a second afterwardsyou are floating on the calm, unru
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