. The Yankee in Quebec. ry-body, no matter what was meant by theexpression. I wont spoil the view by anattempted description. I simply say to you,who come to Quebec, Go see the Falls. You will behold a beautiful sheet of water, pour-ing over a ledge of rock, loo feet higher thanour own great Niagara, not so broad, of course,but a greater plunge. Dont stop here, butfollow up the bank of the river, that flowsthrough a deep depression in the hills, until youhave gone possibly a mile above. Pick yourway down a well beaten path, lOO feet, until youhave again reached the stream, and you willlook upo
. The Yankee in Quebec. ry-body, no matter what was meant by theexpression. I wont spoil the view by anattempted description. I simply say to you,who come to Quebec, Go see the Falls. You will behold a beautiful sheet of water, pour-ing over a ledge of rock, loo feet higher thanour own great Niagara, not so broad, of course,but a greater plunge. Dont stop here, butfollow up the bank of the river, that flowsthrough a deep depression in the hills, until youhave gone possibly a mile above. Pick yourway down a well beaten path, lOO feet, until youhave again reached the stream, and you willlook upon a freak of nature, found nowhere elseamong its great and curious works. The Natural Steps This is a name that will hardly convey to yourmind correctly, the view that will greet youreyes, as you look upon the quarter of a mile ofthe rivers bed, where for untold ages the watershave cut away, and chisseled out of the flakevrocks, a series of steps, as for the entrance wayto a giants castle. The river at this place has 92. The Yankee in Quebec. left the steps high and dry, and has cut down,a sheer depthof 43 feet or more, on the north sideof the bed, and as you look over the edge yousee it go seething and foaming, and ever cuttingthe channel further back. The rocky wallbeyond the stream rises perpendicular, with layersso regular that one could almost believe it hadbeen laid by some giant mason of prehistorictime. If Quebec had no other charm, for the tourist than those of ^Montmorency, theywould amply repay him for a long journey. H. M. Price. Near to, and overlooking the Falls, is thehome of that genial host, Mr. H. M. Price,whose hospitality is confined to no land. Herehave visited those whose names have madehistory, or whose writings have found their wayinto the best literature of the world. A fewnames culled from the autographs here seenare Princess Louise, the Hon. Joseph Chamber-Jain, Lords Lome, Swarssea, Landsdowni,Hcrschell, Playfair, Raleigh and Pauncefotc ;Counts de Le
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