The picturesque StLawrence . s aredownright foolish. Why, the other day a fellowasked me if I spoke United States. What thedickens kind of a language is that ? I said. Of all the many narrow streets of old Quebecthe queerest is Sous le Cap. It skirts theeasterly base of the cliff, winding about theirregularities and having some added angles ofits own. So narrow is it that in most parts twocarts could not pass each other. Clotheslinesextend across overhead, and it is spanned bymany closed-in passages that reach from oneupper story to that opposite, and dark littlealleys connect it with the next
The picturesque StLawrence . s aredownright foolish. Why, the other day a fellowasked me if I spoke United States. What thedickens kind of a language is that ? I said. Of all the many narrow streets of old Quebecthe queerest is Sous le Cap. It skirts theeasterly base of the cliff, winding about theirregularities and having some added angles ofits own. So narrow is it that in most parts twocarts could not pass each other. Clotheslinesextend across overhead, and it is spanned bymany closed-in passages that reach from oneupper story to that opposite, and dark littlealleys connect it with the next street below. Asa final touch the children of the street follow thestranger begging for pennies. The only roadway leading to the Upper Town,unless you go a considerable distance back fromthe St. Lawrence, is Cote de la Montague orMountain Street, and this has not been passablefor carriages until comparatively recent is a stiff climb up its winding way, but this iseasier than to go up by the still steeper The Cham plain Monument The Quebec of the Present 193 The most notable of the latter form of thorough-fare is what is known as the Breakneck Stairsclose by the Dufferin Terrace. This has onehundred and sixty-four steps. The flight ofstairs is fairly wide and is divided by a numberof iron railings for hand supports. Theserailings also serve as a means of descent for theboys, who sit on them sideways and go downwith astonishing velocity. Such use has giventhe iron a polished smoothness that is quitenoticeable. A short walk from the upper end of the stairsbrings one to Dufferin Terrace, Quebecs famouspromenade. This is half way up the northernslope of the bluff, nearly two hundred feet abovethe river which it fronts. It is a planked plat-form about a quarter of a mile long, and theroofs and wharves of the old town under thecliff are immediately below. A disastrous landslide occurred from the faceof the rock that supports its southern end in had bee
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