. 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. CITADKL TERRACK, FKOAt TIIK GRAND PROVINCIAL daring, of Christian endurance, of heroic self-sacrifice, could be summoned from the pregtiaut pages ofChamplaius journal and from that quaint repository of Canadian lore the Relations of the Jesuits? j-ouwould, or I am much mistaken, be deeply moved with the
. 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. CITADKL TERRACK, FKOAt TIIK GRAND PROVINCIAL daring, of Christian endurance, of heroic self-sacrifice, could be summoned from the pregtiaut pages ofChamplaius journal and from that quaint repository of Canadian lore the Relations of the Jesuits? j-ouwould, or I am much mistaken, be deeply moved with the story of the trials, sufferings, and unrequiteddevotion to country, of the denizens of this old rock ; your heart would warm towards that picturesquepromontory sometimes, seemingly dear to sunny old France. One would be tempted occasionally to for-give the cruel desertion of her offspring in its hour of supreme trial. From the womb of a distant past, would come forth a tale of deadly, though not hopeless struggleswith savage or civilized foes, a tale harrowing, not however devoid of useful lessons. The narrativewould become darker, more dreary, when to the cruelty of Indian foemen would be added, as oft was thecase, the horrors of a famine, or the pitiless severity of a northern winter. A tran
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