John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . prec-ipices, waterfalls, beautify the landscape, and Switzer-land has nothing wilder or more picturesque to there push on into Canada, and let your first haltbe at Quebec, on the confluence of the St. Lawrenceand the St. Charles rivers. When I visited Quebec the ice of winter was break-ingup, and the rivers were full of small icebergs, whichmade the crossing from the train at Pont Levis quite anexciting voyage. The skipper of the ferry-boat waitedand watched until a comparativ
John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . prec-ipices, waterfalls, beautify the landscape, and Switzer-land has nothing wilder or more picturesque to there push on into Canada, and let your first haltbe at Quebec, on the confluence of the St. Lawrenceand the St. Charles rivers. When I visited Quebec the ice of winter was break-ingup, and the rivers were full of small icebergs, whichmade the crossing from the train at Pont Levis quite anexciting voyage. The skipper of the ferry-boat waitedand watched until a comparatively clear passage seemedpossible, and at last, with many twistings and dodgingsand bumps, the boat reached the Quebec quay. The 24 JOHN BULL & CO. people speak of this annual break-up of winter as theflood, and when the melted snow comes down fromthe upper town, a house in the lower part of Que-bec must be anything but a desirable residence. Inmany streets the roadway had been raised eight or tenfeet by the snows which had been cleared from the pave-ments after each fall and heaped up in the QUEBEC. Along this elevated way the sleighs ran above the levelof the pedestrians head. The grandeur of the mighty cliff, crowned with thecitadel, charms your gaze, and a stroll through the citywill make you believe you have strayed into some oldBreton town, the sing-song intonation in the peoplesspeech, the sign-boards over the doors, Au Boii St. Jo- JOHN BULL & CO. 25 seph, A Notre Dame des Donleurs, An Petit Agneau sansTacJie, the Breton and Norman names of the shopkeep-ers, the Hue-la of the carters urging on their horses, allhelp to complete the illusion. Only a Norman or a Breton could feel the pleasureand emotion that I felt at seeing these children of oldFrance in Quebec, speaking and thinking as the Frenchspoke and thought in Louis time. Their lan-guage has remained the old Norman dialect of thelangiie dl, such as the peasants of lower Normandyspeak it to-day, innocent
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