. 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. A ViKW OI GASlK IIAV IX THK GULI- OI- ST. :.THIS FRENCH SETTLEMENT USED TO SUPPLY QUEBEC WITH FISH TILL IT WAS DESTROYED BY GENERAL WOLFE AFTER THE SURRENDER OF LOUISBOURO IN 175S. During the stay of the British fleet in 1759, general wolfe resided at the house on the nion than the mile-wide strait, on one side of which rise
. 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. A ViKW OI GASlK IIAV IX THK GULI- OI- ST. :.THIS FRENCH SETTLEMENT USED TO SUPPLY QUEBEC WITH FISH TILL IT WAS DESTROYED BY GENERAL WOLFE AFTER THE SURRENDER OF LOUISBOURO IN 175S. During the stay of the British fleet in 1759, general wolfe resided at the house on the nion than the mile-wide strait, on one side of which rise the greenheights of I^evis, and on the other the bold, abrupt outlines of CapeDiamond. To the traveller from the Old World who first dropsanchor under those dark rocks and frowning ramparts, the coup dwilmust present an impressive frontispiece to the unread volume. ^ *Looking at Quebec first from the opposite heights of Levis, and thenpassing slowly across from shore to shore, the striking features of thecity and its surroundings come gradually into view, in a mannerdoubly enchanting if it happens to be a soft, misty summer first, the dim, huge mass of the rock and Citadel—seemingly onegrand fortification—absorbs the attention. Then the details come out,one after another. The firm lines of rampart and bastion, the shelvingoutlines of the rock, Dufferin Terrace with its light pavilions, the .slopeof Mountain Hill, the Grand Battery, the conspicuous pile of LavalUniversity, the dark serried mass of houses clusterin
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