. 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. FAiiKlIjUK biKKKT, LOOKING TOWARD PiJRT. 32. Specially engraved for Illustrated Quebec.•• A VIHW Uh IHt, CITY OF yL HBHC. THl^ CAtilAL Ul- PARTLY FROM POINTE DES PERES AND PARTLY ON BOARD THE •VAXGCARD MAX OF WAR. BY CAPTAIN HERVEY SMYTH. and to the Indian village higher np the mighty river, which he named the St. Lawrence,
. 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. FAiiKlIjUK biKKKT, LOOKING TOWARD PiJRT. 32. Specially engraved for Illustrated Quebec.•• A VIHW Uh IHt, CITY OF yL HBHC. THl^ CAtilAL Ul- PARTLY FROM POINTE DES PERES AND PARTLY ON BOARD THE •VAXGCARD MAX OF WAR. BY CAPTAIN HERVEY SMYTH. and to the Indian village higher np the mighty river, which he named the St. Lawrence, were disap-pointing to the conrt of France. Nor was Robervals expedition practically more fruitful than that of hispilot-general. Both enterprises were regarded as failures, and French adventure cooled its exploratoryardour and ceased for a time to contend in New France against a savage people and an arctic the period of Cartiers and Robervals expeditions, fully fifty years elapsed before France renewed herefforts to colonize the New World. Her success, measured by that of her British rival, was small. Champlain, the first of her real colonizers in New France, had manyof the elements of greatness in his character and policy,but at the outset he committed an unfortunate error ina
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