. 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. INTRODUCTORY. Ily ARTHrR C. Doughty, , To all old Friends; to those who dwellSecure in yonder old yiiebec. whose glorious fameI-cw cities of to-day can ! Past. Present and to Be,tiKEKTiNi, : (.)ur pen shall tell of Thee. HISTORIC CH.^MPLAIN. X tliL- coiiteniplatioii of the matchless panoraina spread out unde
. 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. INTRODUCTORY. Ily ARTHrR C. Doughty, , To all old Friends; to those who dwellSecure in yonder old yiiebec. whose glorious fameI-cw cities of to-day can ! Past. Present and to Be,tiKEKTiNi, : (.)ur pen shall tell of Thee. HISTORIC CH.^MPLAIN. X tliL- coiiteniplatioii of the matchless panoraina spread out under a Canadiansky. the varied and unceasing lovehness of nature passes before the eye likesome vast train of meteoric splendour, enchanting the imagination with its heautjand grandeur. It is true that the field is being gradually narrowed by theonward march of progress and invention which has done much to thebeauties of the past, and we may sometimes wish that we could hear themurmur of the gentle rivulet, where the engine now tears on its mad career,that we could listen to the song of the peasant boj wending his way homewardin .streets that are now the centres of busy commerce. The domain of our fairDominion, however, is so broad, that on either hand we maj^ find a lavishdisplay of Natures art, unadorned by the heedless hand of man. But civilizationwhile robbing us of some few natural charms often gives something iu return ;the events which followed in its train have given to us an historic past, iu
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