. 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. mainsto-day, as wdien the events which have innnortalizedhere were being worked out. Imposing in the magnificence of its situation,captivating in its picturesqueness, and classic in itsmemories, Quebec has no rival in the New has been told, in prose and verse, of thegrandness of the view from the Citadel, in the burst-ing of the spr
. 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. mainsto-day, as wdien the events which have innnortalizedhere were being worked out. Imposing in the magnificence of its situation,captivating in its picturesqueness, and classic in itsmemories, Quebec has no rival in the New has been told, in prose and verse, of thegrandness of the view from the Citadel, in the burst-ing of the springtide, of the dazzling sheen of thenoonday heat, of the matchless hues of autumnal tints ;but surely the views of summer have never eclipsedthe picture to our vision one clear moonlightnight in January. Looking down from the giddyheights on to the tops of the houses tumbled togetherin wild incongruity, with here and there a light flash-ing from a window, or the red glare of a .stove indicat-ing that all was life and cheer within, we could notcontrasting it with the summer picture. How sharp the contrast ! The bosom of the mighty riverfast in the grasp of icywinter, the city ^hushed in the silence of the night, and, over all, rich and. ST. LOUIS poor, hut or palace, temple or cot, was cast the spotless mantle of snow. The glorious landscape thatgladdened our eyes at harvest had donned its winter garb, and every roof and fane, every tree and shrubshrouded in icy cerements, which no human hand or artifice could imitate, formed in the silver light ofthe moon a picture of fairj-like magnificence. The object of this little work is to set before the tourist and the student, those natural and artificialbeauties, which are seldom found in greater profusion than in the city of Quebec and its immediatevicinity, and to present him with a volume that may prove reliable as a guide or acceptable as a souvenir. But enough, our task is done. In these few words have weintrodu
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