. 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. SpECIAvLV ENGflAVEO FOR n*TEo Quebec- Db*wn on the spot by Capt. Hehvev Smyth, 1769. A VIEW OF THE FALL OF MONTMORHNCY AND THE ATTACK MADK BY GliNERAL WOLFE ON THE FRENCH INTKENCHMENTS. NEAR BEAUFORT, WITH THE (VRENADIERB OF THE ARMY, ON THE 3IST OF JULY, homage at the shrine of the matchless citj-, how short of theglory of the reality
. 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. SpECIAvLV ENGflAVEO FOR n*TEo Quebec- Db*wn on the spot by Capt. Hehvev Smyth, 1769. A VIEW OF THE FALL OF MONTMORHNCY AND THE ATTACK MADK BY GliNERAL WOLFE ON THE FRENCH INTKENCHMENTS. NEAR BEAUFORT, WITH THE (VRENADIERB OF THE ARMY, ON THE 3IST OF JULY, homage at the shrine of the matchless citj-, how short of theglory of the reality will be the conception formed in themind of even the most ardent onlooker. But besides thepicturesque beauty, how full of memories is the quaint oldplace ! Discovered by Cartier three hundred and fifty yearsago, founded by Champlain three-quarters of a centurylater, the place still preserves the traditions and maintainsmuch of the civil and religious character of that early fur trade, it is true, has disappeared, and with it theIndian trapper and woodsman ; but the French race remainsand flourishes, and with it the Mother Church and theecclesiastical system which founded and reared the Cralliccolon}. Nor has the great red rock, though shorn of itstrees and their many-tinted foliage, lost much of its character. vSince the days of Cartier and Donnacona,it has taken on a militarj aspect, and from its frowningfortifications Frontenac defied and Montcalm succumbed toan enemy ; but its sceni
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