The picturesque StLawrence . de, island-dotted Lake St. Louis. When an opening in the trees or a lift of landgives a view in the other direction Mount Royalssturdy mass is the dominant note in the land-scape. This mountain is in reality the shouldersof a volcano with the head blown off. In pre-historic ages it belched forth molten floods andwrote its daily history against the sky in fire andsmoke. At that time it stretched the wholebreadth of the island out into the present channelon the south, while in the other direction itswept far back toward the ancient Laurentideranges. The loftiest frag
The picturesque StLawrence . de, island-dotted Lake St. Louis. When an opening in the trees or a lift of landgives a view in the other direction Mount Royalssturdy mass is the dominant note in the land-scape. This mountain is in reality the shouldersof a volcano with the head blown off. In pre-historic ages it belched forth molten floods andwrote its daily history against the sky in fire andsmoke. At that time it stretched the wholebreadth of the island out into the present channelon the south, while in the other direction itswept far back toward the ancient Laurentideranges. The loftiest fragment of its dismantledbody today is Mount Royal which rises ninehundred feet above the sea, and seven hundredand forty above the river. Half a thousandacres of Mount Royals higher portion is a parkwhere the forest is preserved for the most partin a state of nature. The mountain rises verysteeply from behind the city, but the crest ofthe bluff is easily reached by an incline more agreeable way of going up and down,. H- ?-1 The Montreal of Today 105 however, is by the winding, shady drives andpaths. Cartier was the first white man to climb theheight, and on it he planted a cross and gavethe mountain its name. Therefrom one seesvery far, he wrote. The view is strikingly im-pressive. Immediately below, the woodlanddescends steeply, and gradually merges into thecity streets. What a vast array of roofs andbrick and stone walls, spires and domes andchimneys! and you hear the dull roar of themultitudinous traffic over the pavements. Be-yond, the great landscape is cut in twain by theriver. Otherwise it seems an almost unbrokenplain to the remote southern horizon whereslumber ranges of shadowy mountains. It is awonderful sight—that wide level with its varie-gated fields and woodlands and its dappling ofblue cloud shadows; and its charm is probablyfully as great today as when Cartier looked downon the scene from this same spot. VI THE OTTAWA JUST above the Island of Montreal
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