. Here and there in New England and Canada . several comfortable summer-estates, or country-houses, belonging to 6s Montrealers. It is surprising tliat this feature of life, so attractive to ourAnglo-Canadian brethren, should not have been developed to a greaterextent on these lovely and salubrious shores, which should be to Montrealwhat Loch Lomond is to Glasgow. Georgeville is a primitive, quiet, inexpensive little Canadian village,decadent since the busier days about the middle of the century, when itstrade covered a great area of the Eastern Townships. A large modernhotel now caters for su
. Here and there in New England and Canada . several comfortable summer-estates, or country-houses, belonging to 6s Montrealers. It is surprising tliat this feature of life, so attractive to ourAnglo-Canadian brethren, should not have been developed to a greaterextent on these lovely and salubrious shores, which should be to Montrealwhat Loch Lomond is to Glasgow. Georgeville is a primitive, quiet, inexpensive little Canadian village,decadent since the busier days about the middle of the century, when itstrade covered a great area of the Eastern Townships. A large modernhotel now caters for summer-travel, succeeding the famous old CamperdownInn. Georgeville is one of the most self-possessed towns of Canada; asingle wire and a daily mail-bag keep it in communication with the outsideworld. But no breezes of intelligence from any direction ever disturb theperfect serenity of its peace. Here you may enjoy the bright and electric mornings, with life in the airand an indescribably jocund gleam on the waves. And after the silent after-. l^KE MEMPHREIAAqOG ■<^,. noons, under a sky of turquoise, the splendors of sunset flood the westernmountains with rich and rosy tints. Filled was the air with a dreaminc; and magical light. The little hamlet nestles at the feet of high green hills, and attracts agreat number of Canadian summer-guests, mostly from the well-to-do familiesof Montreal. The great hotel across the lake, now wellnigh dismantled,was built by capitalists from the metropolis of Canada, to be an ultra-fash-ionable resort for New-World baronets and gentry and their families; butthe scheme failed of success, and the house was never opened. After leaving Georgeville, we run across the bright lake and up SergeantsBay to Knowltons I^anding. Rounding the high rocks of Gibraltar Point,with its great ruined hotel, and traversing a narrow strait inside of a woodedisland. Mount Orford appears in advance, and the, steamboat speeds down 66 across broader reaches to Magog, a
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