. 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. e mass of the rock and Citadel—seemingly onegrand fortification—absorbs the attention. Then the details come out,one after another. The firm lines of rampart and bastion, the shelvingoutlines of the rock, Dufferin Terrace with its light pavilions, the .slopeof Mountain Hill, the Grand Battery, the conspicuous pile of LavalUniversity, the dark
. 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. e mass of the rock and Citadel—seemingly onegrand fortification—absorbs the attention. Then the details come out,one after another. The firm lines of rampart and bastion, the shelvingoutlines of the rock, Dufferin Terrace with its light pavilions, the .slopeof Mountain Hill, the Grand Battery, the conspicuous pile of LavalUniversity, the dark serried mass of houses clustering along the foot ofthe rock, and rising gradually up the gentler incline into which thesefall away, the busy quays, the large passenger boats steaming in andout from their wharves, all impress the stranger with the most distinct-ive aspects of Quebec before he lands. But we must conclude these extracts from writers who treatchiefly of scenic Quebec. What has been left unsaid will, no doubt, bereadily supplied—perhaps even what has been said will be not lessdelightfully substituted—bj the impressions of the individual , however fervent maj- be the enthusiasm who come to pay ilulK HIUL. 26. SpECIAvLV ENGflAVEO FOR n*TEo Quebec- Db*wn on the spot by Capt. Hehvev Smyth, 1769. A VIEW OF THE FALL OF MONTMORHNCY AND THE ATTACK MADK BY GliNERAL WOLFE ON THE FRENCH INTKENCHMENTS. NEAR BEAUFORT, WITH THE (VRENADIERB OF THE ARMY, ON THE 3IST OF JULY, 1759.
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