Beauties of the StLawrence . A STREET IN TORONTO. water. These descents in the bed of the St. Lawrence are, likedescents in the bed of other rivers, no scientific marvel ; but it is amarvel, and an exhileration of more than usual novelty, to sweepdown them, not in a canoe, but in a large and densely crowdedsteamer. But while there is the maximum of excitement, there is, 6 The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Companys we believe, the minimum of danger, though the experience is oftentrying to the nerves, especially when the steamboat makes a lurchin the chaotic waters and a volume of spray is dash
Beauties of the StLawrence . A STREET IN TORONTO. water. These descents in the bed of the St. Lawrence are, likedescents in the bed of other rivers, no scientific marvel ; but it is amarvel, and an exhileration of more than usual novelty, to sweepdown them, not in a canoe, but in a large and densely crowdedsteamer. But while there is the maximum of excitement, there is, 6 The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Companys we believe, the minimum of danger, though the experience is oftentrying to the nerves, especially when the steamboat makes a lurchin the chaotic waters and a volume of spray is dashed in the faces ofthe thrilled voyagers. Nor are the nervous reassured by a glanceat the extra-manned wheel-house, and from that to the foam-lashedavenues of waters, down which the vessel speeds as if to certaindestruction. The situation becomes more thrilling with the descentof the rapids nearer to Montreal. These increase in violence intheir headlong course down the river, while the danger seems to. A VIEW ON THE ST. LAWRENCE, FROM THE STEAMERS DECK. become more appalling as the channel is hidden in spray. At last,comes a return to still water—that is, still in comparison with themaelstrom from which the vessel has emerged. Proceeding onward we catch sight of that modern structure, theCanadian Pacific Railway Bridge, which spans the St. Lawrence atLachine and connects the Canadian Pacific Railway with bridge illustrates in a striking manner the change that hastaken place in engineering methods of bridge building since theerection of the Victoria Bridge. It is constructed on the cantilever Souvenir of Canadian Scenery
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