. 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. vadetl them, and there remains only a tradition ofwhat they once were. The beautiful vallej- of the Gouffre, that most impetuous of Canadian streams, is acharming spot and typical of the country. Cap aux Corbeaux, so named from the number of ravens who inhabit its pine-clad summit,next projectsits ill-omened front upon the gaze of the travelle
. 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. vadetl them, and there remains only a tradition ofwhat they once were. The beautiful vallej- of the Gouffre, that most impetuous of Canadian streams, is acharming spot and typical of the country. Cap aux Corbeaux, so named from the number of ravens who inhabit its pine-clad summit,next projectsits ill-omened front upon the gaze of the traveller. A tradition received from the Indians credits this lofty, cloud-wreathed headland with being thehome of demons. A like source is given for the legend of the giant Outikon, who was driven by holymissionaries from the islands on the other side of the river to the distant solitudes of Lake Mistassini,where live the Naskapiouts, a tribe that never say a pra3-er, whence he, in his wrath, thunders and shakesthe north shore, which, as the showman would say, accounts for the frequent earthquakes for whichthat part of the country has long been noted. Any traveller who desires to enjoy the sensation of an earthquake may be almost sure of being gratified. (luring liis holidays along this fact, however, has no effect on thestream of tourists who go thither inincreasing numbers every season. The neighbouring Isle aux Coudres ishistorically interesting from having beenoccupied by a part of Wolfes army, on itsway to Quebec, in the year 1759. It is alsofamous in other respects, and has foundworthy historians in the Al)be Casgrain,Abbe Mailloux and J. M. Lemoine. French explorers and settlers musthave been men of surpassing courage, ifwe may judge by the names they havegiven to several of the prominent featureson this forbidding shore. We have leftthe mountain home of demons only to en-counter the glooraj cape named by Cham-plain—Zrt Pointe de tons les whether demons
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