. 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. priest with greenboughs. Many men ha\-e ascended in the wake ofthe first white mans boat on the deep darkwaters of the Saguenay. during these threecenturies, but the .sombre majestic and giganticlineaments of the mountains along its coursehave not changed. Mantled with pines, crownedwith clouds, they glower down into the deep,smooth, unfathoma
. 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. priest with greenboughs. Many men ha\-e ascended in the wake ofthe first white mans boat on the deep darkwaters of the Saguenay. during these threecenturies, but the .sombre majestic and giganticlineaments of the mountains along its coursehave not changed. Mantled with pines, crownedwith clouds, they glower down into the deep,smooth, unfathomablv dark river, which glassestheir awful fronts till their shadows belowblot out the sunlight and the waters sink into night and chaos. All this northern coast of the St. Lawrence is a mighty rampart of rock great chasms and gorgesbreak it but to reveal still mightier walls of mountains, till the eye is fain to rest on fleeting shimmerings ofcloud, floating above hills that seem as far off as the sky itself Rock and forest everywhere : dark andsombre when the clouds gather, and the raiu-squalls howl down the passes, blotting out of sight all but thewhite-capped waves : many-hued and soft-shadowed as the morning light plays on pine and spruce 97 on waving birch and quivering poplar, on dark cedar and brilliant maple ; clear-cut and bright in thestrong light of a Canadian raid-day ; rich in purple and green, crimson and gold, russet and graj, orangeand black, as the sun goes down ; vague, soft and silvery in the moonlight ; mysterious and overwhelmingwhen the moon has sunk behind the hills. A land of torrents and earthquakes, where the foundations ofthe continent were upheaved, and scarcely now have settled firm. Yet, wherever the mouth of a riverwedges the hills apart, or the wearin:^ current and chafing ice-floes have left a foothold at the base of the heights or have cut an escarpment in their sides, little ham-lets cluster and the symbol of Christian faith is seen. Stru
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