. Lake Superior to the Sea. ersity, foundedin 1811, and Laval. No visitor to Montreal should forego a visit to the mountain,which can be reached by incline railway, foot, or its summit one is able to obtain a magnificent kaleido-scopic view of the city and surrounding country. Looking fromits lofty heights we see, to the far west, the Ottawa River, justwhere it converges with the St. Lawrence; to the north, the boldLaurentians; to the southeast, the Adirondacks; to the southwest,the Blue Mountains of Vermont; in the middle distance, the fertilevalley of Canadas mightiest river
. Lake Superior to the Sea. ersity, foundedin 1811, and Laval. No visitor to Montreal should forego a visit to the mountain,which can be reached by incline railway, foot, or its summit one is able to obtain a magnificent kaleido-scopic view of the city and surrounding country. Looking fromits lofty heights we see, to the far west, the Ottawa River, justwhere it converges with the St. Lawrence; to the north, the boldLaurentians; to the southeast, the Adirondacks; to the southwest,the Blue Mountains of Vermont; in the middle distance, the fertilevalley of Canadas mightiest river spread before us as on a map; atour feet the city, with its harbor, ships, grain elevators, docks,churches, public buildings, factories, and homes, standing out instriking contrast. W\ r^kf /jcr^B rjjri 1 M^K Jr*^*^ •SIK Jr/Jm I \m ^Pv i^M mi ft Wtf *., |H wbJmJ?»»- * Jit P\W%W/m i^w1 : t^i J J ^H *wl B ?!• HHHm^HHH Fashionable Sherbrooke Street, with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the Right Lake Superior to the Sea 57. We Leave Montreal on One of the Palatial Sister Ships, Montreal or Quebec FROM MONTREAL we proceed to Quebec on the Montrealor Quebec, the magnificent steamers that make travel betweenthese two cities so great a pleasure. Leaving the harbor, we pass, on our right, St. Helens Island,from whose shores, in 1613, Champlain commenced his famous tripto the headwaters of the Ottawa. Seven miles farther down we seethe little village of Boucherville, whose church register contains thename of an Indian infant baptized by Pere Marquette in 1668,probably the first baptism celebrated in Canada, while a mile and ahalf below, on our left, the pretty little church of Point-aux-Tremblesis passed. Very soon we are abreast of Varennes, whose establish-ment dates back to 1673, its twin-towered modern church appearingto splendid advantage in the waning light. The next point of interest is Vercheres, easily distinguished byits old French windmill, and the statue to Madeline Lalieuls
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