The Maritime provinces: a handbook for travellers A guide to the chief cities, coasts, and islands of the Maritime provinces of Canada .. with the gulf and river of St Lawrence to Quebec and Montreal; also, Newfoundland and the Labrador coast With four maps and four plans . MONTKEAL. Route 75. 309 carriages. The church is a large and statelj building, with two conspicu-ous towers. 1 M. from the village are the celebrated Varennes Springs^which are saline in character and possessed of valuable medicinal proper-ties. One of them emits great quantities of carbonated hydrogen gas, andthe other yie
The Maritime provinces: a handbook for travellers A guide to the chief cities, coasts, and islands of the Maritime provinces of Canada .. with the gulf and river of St Lawrence to Quebec and Montreal; also, Newfoundland and the Labrador coast With four maps and four plans . MONTKEAL. Route 75. 309 carriages. The church is a large and statelj building, with two conspicu-ous towers. 1 M. from the village are the celebrated Varennes Springs^which are saline in character and possessed of valuable medicinal proper-ties. One of them emits great quantities of carbonated hydrogen gas, andthe other yields 2 - 3 gallons a minute, and is much visited by are being made to establish a first-class summer resort atthis point. Above Varennes is Bouchaville, the birthplace of Chief JusticeSir Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine. The low and marshy islands off this shoreare famous for duck-shooting, and for the ice-dams which form here atthe close of the winter. Pointe aux Trembles is to the N., on the Island ofMontreal, and is an ancient village dating from 1674. We were gliding past Longueuil and Boucherville on the (left), and Pointe auxTrembles, so called from having been originally covered with aspens, on the (right).I repeat these names not merely for w
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