. 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. las and minarets, like those ofan Eastern citj, blazing andsparkling in the sun ; the love-liness of the panorama ; the noblebasin, like a sheet of pure silver,in which might ride with safetya hundred sail of the line ; thegraceful meandering of the RiverSt. Charles ; the numerous vil-lage spires on either side of theSt. L,awrence ; the fertil
. 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. las and minarets, like those ofan Eastern citj, blazing andsparkling in the sun ; the love-liness of the panorama ; the noblebasin, like a sheet of pure silver,in which might ride with safetya hundred sail of the line ; thegraceful meandering of the RiverSt. Charles ; the numerous vil-lage spires on either side of theSt. L,awrence ; the fertile fields,.^ dotted with innumerable cottages, the abodes of a rich and moral peasantry ;the distant Falls of Montmorenci ; the park-like sceneryof Point Levis ; the beauteous Isle of Orleans : and, moredistant still, the frowning Cape Tourmente, and the loft}range of purple mountains of the most picturesque formswhich bound the prospect, unite to form a coup dceil, which, without exaggera-tion, is scarcely to be surpassed in any part of tlie world. Many of the more notable descriptions of Quebec, naturallj enough, deal with its historic aspects, and chiefly with those curious phases of the city that ,, B , ; _, recall a b}-e-goue age. Mr. Goldwin
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