Beauties of the StLawrence . m SUSKm. A RICHELIEU STEAMER SHOOTING THE LACHINE RAPIDS—PRESENT. Montreal, the City of de Maisonneuve, the Hochelaga of the In-dian, the commercial metropolis of Canada to-day, nestles, or rather,once nestled, between the foot of majestic Mount Royal and the giantflood of the still more majestic St. Lawrence. It was so in daysgone past, but in our time the city has so expanded, its avenues haveso far stretched in all directions, save to the southward, its risingedifices have so usurped the surrounding country, that nestle is nolonger the expression ; we should say
Beauties of the StLawrence . m SUSKm. A RICHELIEU STEAMER SHOOTING THE LACHINE RAPIDS—PRESENT. Montreal, the City of de Maisonneuve, the Hochelaga of the In-dian, the commercial metropolis of Canada to-day, nestles, or rather,once nestled, between the foot of majestic Mount Royal and the giantflood of the still more majestic St. Lawrence. It was so in daysgone past, but in our time the city has so expanded, its avenues haveso far stretched in all directions, save to the southward, its risingedifices have so usurped the surrounding country, that nestle is nolonger the expression ; we should say that it crowds its huge propor-tions in between river and mountain and bursts out towards the east
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