. 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. ?ics—the de Longueuil, de Vaudreuil, de Beaujeu, devSt. Ours, de la Naudiere, etc., was powerless against the rapacity and profligacy of Bigot, and his fellow plunderers and parasites . .These were truly the darkdays of the colony under Frenchrule ; a of the doingsin times suffices to ex-plain why French Canada, des-erted by F
. 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. ?ics—the de Longueuil, de Vaudreuil, de Beaujeu, devSt. Ours, de la Naudiere, etc., was powerless against the rapacity and profligacy of Bigot, and his fellow plunderers and parasites . .These were truly the darkdays of the colony under Frenchrule ; a of the doingsin times suffices to ex-plain why French Canada, des-erted by France, betrayed bysome of her own .sons, acceptedso readily, as a fait accompli,the new regime ; why, havingonce sworn fealty to the newbanner implanted on our cita-del by the genius of a Chatham,it closed its ear and steeled itsheart even against the bland-ishments of the brave, generousLafayette, held out in the nameof that grand old patriot andfather of your country, George\\ \ n \\ I k(J.\I THK FURTlFICAriilX-^, \R M 1:, . , .\ 1 c. i6 Eliot Warburton, the gifted author of The Crescent and tlie Cross, has also left us a charmingword-picture descriptive of the general features of Quebec on an autumn morning. Take, he writes,mountain and plain, sinuous river and I)road. tranquil waters, stately ship and tiny boat, gentle hill andshady valley, bold headland and rich, fruitful fields, frowning battlement and cheerful villa, glittering domeand rural spire, flowerygarden and sombre forest,—group them all into thechoicest picture of idealbeauty j-our fancy can cre-ate, arch it over with acloudless sky, light it upwith a radiant sun, and,lest the sheen be too daz-zling, hang a veil of lightedhaze over all, to soften thelines and perfect the re-pose,—you will then haveseen Quebec on this Sep-tember morning. Xot lessdelightful is the picturelimned for us by Mr. Haw-kins, the early historian ofthe fair citj-, and in his dayone of its most impassioned _-.
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