. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. DUFFERIN TERRACE, (QUEBEC. the fortification, has been nut inaptly entitled tlie Gibraltar ofAmerica. The shape of the cit\ triancjiilar. the St. Lawrence and St. CharlesRivers forming the two sides, with the Plains of Abraham for tile river fronts are defended by a continuous wall on the very b
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. DUFFERIN TERRACE, (QUEBEC. the fortification, has been nut inaptly entitled tlie Gibraltar ofAmerica. The shape of the cit\ triancjiilar. the St. Lawrence and St. CharlesRivers forming the two sides, with the Plains of Abraham for tile river fronts are defended by a continuous wall on the very brow ofthe cliff, with flanking towers and bastions, loopholed for musketry andpierced for cannon. On the west side, a heavy trijjle wall, with trenchesbetween, formerly guarded that approach, but nnich of it is nowdemolished. The nationality of the inhabitants is strongly French, and a visitoifrom the States can easily fancy himself in a city in France, so decidedlvun-American are all his surroundings. The quaint houses, the steep andtortuous streets, especially of the oldest portions of the city, and thealmost universal use of the French language m the ordinary channelsof trade, require nj stretch of the imagination to practically transport. one to the old world, and give :iglimpse, as it were, of a foreign country. This characteristic is even moremarked in the suburbs of the city, beinL;emphasized by the primitive methoil-of agriculture, and the women in The view from the Citadel, <m-ingto itscle\ati(.
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