. 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. Nor have Canadian writers failed to pay at this seat of ancient dominion the homage which it extorts from visitors from other lands. Very eloquent have been the tributes paid b^^ many of them, for few have approached the grand old storied rock without emotion, or been insensible to the stirring incited by its influences position and history. H
. 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. Nor have Canadian writers failed to pay at this seat of ancient dominion the homage which it extorts from visitors from other lands. Very eloquent have been the tributes paid b^^ many of them, for few have approached the grand old storied rock without emotion, or been insensible to the stirring incited by its influences position and history. Hereis an apostrophe from the graceful penof the lady who writes under the familiarnoni dcplume of Fidelis : Quebec—the spot where the most refined civil-ization of the Old World first touched ^the barbaric wildness of the New—is also thespot where the largest share of the picturesqueand romantic element has gathered round the out-. .>VV^^3U(
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