. 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. y Richelieu. It would take me far beyond the limits I have prescribed to myself,were I to unravel the tangled web of early colonial rule or misrule, which until the con-quest by Britain, in 1759, flourished, under the lily bainier of the Bourbons, on yondersublime cliff. Let us revert then, to that haunted dreamland of the past; let usglance a
. 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. y Richelieu. It would take me far beyond the limits I have prescribed to myself,were I to unravel the tangled web of early colonial rule or misrule, which until the con-quest by Britain, in 1759, flourished, under the lily bainier of the Bourbons, on yondersublime cliff. Let us revert then, to that haunted dreamland of the past; let usglance at a period anterior to the foundation of Jamestown, in 1607, even much anteriorto the foundation of St. Augustine, in Florida. On the north bank of the River St. Charles, about a mile from its entrance,Jacques Cartier wintered in 1535. What a difference in the tonnage of thearrivals from sea, in September, 1535; the Grande Hermine, 120tons; the Petite Hermine, 60 tons; the Enierillon, 40 tons,and, in August i860, Captain Vine Halls leviathan, the GreatEastern, of 22,500 tons ! What terror the shipping news that morningof September, 1535, must have caused to swarthj Donnacona, thechieftain of the Indian (Iroquois or Huron?) town of Stadacona ! the. or D \^A\ FROM \\ OLFE S COVE TO THE HEIGHTS OF ABRAHAM. i ■ »l«««««f«(f,«:: §sk00
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