Beauties of the StLawrence . ces, the perpendicular rocks,some thinly mantled with pines and spruce, others thickly clad inbalsam and evergreens, combine to make you feel like a new beingin a new creation. The shades contrasted with the sunlight formcombinations that no painter ever imagined and no poet everdreamed. When the shadow of Cape Eternity falls upon the sur-rounding slopes, the opposite cliffs, the waters below, and when themammoth head of the bald mountain, with its circling aureola of firs,is lit with the rays of mid-day, rising from the blackness of night, andlike the last mountai
Beauties of the StLawrence . ces, the perpendicular rocks,some thinly mantled with pines and spruce, others thickly clad inbalsam and evergreens, combine to make you feel like a new beingin a new creation. The shades contrasted with the sunlight formcombinations that no painter ever imagined and no poet everdreamed. When the shadow of Cape Eternity falls upon the sur-rounding slopes, the opposite cliffs, the waters below, and when themammoth head of the bald mountain, with its circling aureola of firs,is lit with the rays of mid-day, rising from the blackness of night, andlike the last mountain of the deluge, catching the full glow of bright- 22 The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Companys ness above, no earthly picture can equal it, and a journey of thous-ands of miles is repaid by that one hour under Cape Eternity. From this most interesting spot until you reach Ha ! Ha ! Bay(so called on account of the echoes of every laugh that reverberatearound the place), a distance of about thirty miles, you glide along. CHICOUTIMI, SHOWING STE. ANNE, SAGUENAY RIVER. between those two immense walls of limestone rock, half a mileapart, but apparently within stones throw of either side of the ves-sel. At the head of navigation is a beautiful bay, with a picturesquehabitant village—the little church on a rising mound and the white-washed cottages lining the shore. On the beach the women andchildren are washing and bleaching clothes, while small carts, drawnby Canadian ponies, and loaded with blue-berries, stand upon thewharf, awaiting the steamboat that is to convey the fruit to themarkets of Quebec and Montreal. A short drive through a most romantic region of pine hills andleaping waterways brings us to Chicoutimi, a raw Canadian lumbertown with the mellow mantle of the old Norman style of Frenchbeauty cast over it. It is full of picturesque Canadian Chicoutimi behind, we turn homeward, watching the longprocession of headland, rock and hill, the scattered haml
Size: 1816px × 1375px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidbeautiesofst, bookyear1893
