. 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. twined with those which formthe beginnings of Canada, andto which we trace the origin ofher people. In this respectQuebec fitly stands at the port-als of the country, whose far-separated shores are laved bythe waters of three an air of distinction toothere is about the site ! Thecity is perched on a high blufiwhich terminates a len
. 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. twined with those which formthe beginnings of Canada, andto which we trace the origin ofher people. In this respectQuebec fitly stands at the port-als of the country, whose far-separated shores are laved bythe waters of three an air of distinction toothere is about the site ! Thecity is perched on a high blufiwhich terminates a lengthenedstretch of elevated Till-. m;w cui ri Hii>i: 49 Its highest point is the citadel-crowned Cape Diamond,almost 350 feet above the St. Lawrence. Nature no lessthan Art has divided the city into an Upper Town andLower Town, the latter, on its eastern front, beingwedged between the base of the cliffs and the on a promontor), the citj has room for expansiononly to the southward, across the historicPlains of Abraham, its other flanksbeing girt by the St. Lawrence onthe east and the river and valleyof the St. Charles on the wide range of wharves jutsout from its water front andfurnishes ample accommoda-tion, for its large shippingtrade. The Lower Town isgiven up chiefly to commercebut this has now intrudedinto the Upper Town, whereare the better class of resi-dences. The lumber building trade of thecity have diminished, but onthe other hand manv and
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