. In old Quebec and other sketches. - sixty feet inlength, but was extented in 1854 to one hun-dred and .seventy feet, and, again, in 1870,at the suggestion of Lord Dufferin, to the wallsof the Citadel, making a total promenade offourteen hundred feet, with an average widthof at seventy feet. Another promenadehas .since been constructed on a higher leveland extending alongside the Citadel walls asfar as the Cove ImcMs. the connection betweenthe two Terraces having been effected by aseries of stairwa> s. At a height of three hundred feet above the. (I] CO u Q iJ B CQ HZ u AND OTHER SK
. In old Quebec and other sketches. - sixty feet inlength, but was extented in 1854 to one hun-dred and .seventy feet, and, again, in 1870,at the suggestion of Lord Dufferin, to the wallsof the Citadel, making a total promenade offourteen hundred feet, with an average widthof at seventy feet. Another promenadehas .since been constructed on a higher leveland extending alongside the Citadel walls asfar as the Cove ImcMs. the connection betweenthe two Terraces having been effected by aseries of stairwa> s. At a height of three hundred feet above the. (I] CO u Q iJ B CQ HZ u AND OTHER SKETCHES 59 waters of the St. Lawrence, the Terrace affordsa view which for extent and variety of scene isperhaps unrivalled, as it is certainly unsurpas-sed, on the Continent of America, a view whichmust yield very delightful recreation to thosewho look upon it on a fine summer eveningfrom this commanding situation. In one direc-tion we have a glimpse of a quiet village, andthe slender spire of its modest church, glisten-ing in the after glow of the sunset ; in anotherwe see the comfortable home of some Canadianfarmer, protected from the heat bj^ the wide-spreading branches of the umbrageous mapleor graceful elm, and embellished externallywith those simple creeping vines which theFrench Canadians arrange so effectively ; inthe distance the Laurentian mountains raisetheir purple veiled summits towards the sky,here shining in the brilliant sunlight, thereshrouded in shadow ; nearer to us, but on theopposite side of the water, is the old fashionedtown o
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