Beauties of the StLawrence . ??Ad THE CENTOhr; ,,,/ a move perceptible in thatendless hive of human indus-try. Away beyond the dinand clatter, the dust andflurry, we can calmly countthe objects of attraction, andour guide-book, IllustratedMontreal, tells us the his-torical event connected withevery temple and edifice. Away to the right run thetwo picturesque roads to La-chine, and between is thefamed canal, where the steam-ers ascending, seem to be run-ning on dry land, while, fromthe distance, the world-re-nowned rapids appear within a stones throw of the canal down, like a huge l
Beauties of the StLawrence . ??Ad THE CENTOhr; ,,,/ a move perceptible in thatendless hive of human indus-try. Away beyond the dinand clatter, the dust andflurry, we can calmly countthe objects of attraction, andour guide-book, IllustratedMontreal, tells us the his-torical event connected withevery temple and edifice. Away to the right run thetwo picturesque roads to La-chine, and between is thefamed canal, where the steam-ers ascending, seem to be run-ning on dry land, while, fromthe distance, the world-re-nowned rapids appear within a stones throw of the canal down, like a huge leviathan of the prehistoric epochs,. THE CITADElv QUEBEC. Souvenir of Ca?iadian Scenery. 13 stretched fully across the broad St. Lawrence, pier after pier, andspan after span, the great Victoria Bridge flings its huge proportions,its diminishing tail touching the shore at St. Lambert and its mon-ster head swallowing up a train that rushes from St. Cunegondeinto its iron jaws. And lower still we behold St. Helens Island,once famed as a military stronghold, now a gem-like park, within afew acres of the vast wharves. Over its magazine-crowned hil-locks, we catch a glimpse of the slender and elegant spire of theLongueuil church, one of the finest in Canada, and the blue backof towering Belceil Mountain, the summer resort, par excelle?ice, ofMontreals citizens. Broader grows the St. Lawrence, and faintlydistant appear the sparkling steeples of Vareunes and Boucherville,as they scintillate in the beams of the setting sun. Yonder, betweenthe two temples, like the Pillars of Hercules at the entrance of an-other Mediterranean, co
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