. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. to the antique City. The novelist,Charles Dickens, thus speaks of the pic-turesque beauty and historic interest ofQuebec:—The impression left uponilie visitor, by this Gibraltar of America,—its giddy height, its Citadel, suspendedas it were in mid air, its picturesquesteep streets and frowning gateways, andthe splendid view which bursts upon t
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. to the antique City. The novelist,Charles Dickens, thus speaks of the pic-turesque beauty and historic interest ofQuebec:—The impression left uponilie visitor, by this Gibraltar of America,—its giddy height, its Citadel, suspendedas it were in mid air, its picturesquesteep streets and frowning gateways, andthe splendid view which bursts upon theeye at every turn, is at once unique andlasting. It is a place not to be forgottenor mixed up in the mind with otherplaces, or altered for a moment in thecrowd of scenes which a traveller canrecall. Apart from the realities of thismost picturesque city, there are associations that would make a desert rich in in-terest. The dangerous precipices along which Wolfe and his brave companionsclimbed to glory ; the Plains of Abraham, where he received his mortal wound ;the fortress so chivalrously defended by Montcalm, and his soldier-grave, dugfor him while yet alive by the bursting of a shell, are not least among them. J. M. LeMoine, the historia
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