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LAWRENCE: THE HUDSON RIVER; TRENTON FALLS; NI.^GARA ; TORONTO- THE THOUSAND ISLANDS AND THE RIVER ST. LAW- ' RENCE; OTTAWA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; THE LOWER ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY RIVERS ; THE WHITE MOUNTAINS ; PORTLAND; BOSTON; NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY CHTSHot ^.r .. ^^ .iT.' oc K^KJ, PRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL, ST. NICHOLAS STREET 1871. ^f7/ THE RElSDiiET HDiSE. B B O w IMPORTERS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN BRUm. FOREIGN & AMERICAN FANCY & STAPLE Nos. 434, 436 and 438 NOTBE DAME STKEET, ' AND Nos. 25, 27 and 29 ST. HELEN STREET WEST END, R. G. BROWN, ) C. C, CLAQGETT, ] MOJ^TREAL. of the latest novelties, at wholesale prices, Real T. ""^T ''''''^'^ '^^^^^S, MANTLES^ ^'^' ."^^.^^^^^^^.^^ ^^d sash Ribbons and En.h.n,,,.,... xx^u^anure jouvin, Harris, Josephine, SingleVnd ' Double Button French Kid Gloves ^ ^ci^j- PBEFACE. T..E Aw Round RouteandPanoham.o Guide, i„ ite „ew form has fi,r exceeded in ite sueeess the sanguine antieipations of the pro-' F.etors ; and they feel that their desires to publish such a book as would meet ,l,e requirements of the American traveller, in makin.. the popular tour described therein, have been fully appreciated. " Advantage has been taken of suggestions made in regard to alterations, additions, and improvements, and it is hopld and believed that the present edition ivill prove still more useful and attractive than the previous one. Every attention has been given to securing accuracy of detail, so as to make the work a perfect Guide to Tourists, and the pub-' lishers hope, by improving the Guide from season to season, to merit a continuance of support and patronage. They would renew the request made in their preface of last year, that any suggestions that will benefit the work may be communicated by those into whose hands it may fall, as best able to make them, and they wifl be duly acknowledged, and made use of. THE ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE OF THE ST. LAWRENCE. THE HUDSON RIVER. The seenery of the Hudson River has been so often written and talked about, that all who have never yet passed up its varied course, will, we presume, on starting on a trip of pleasure, endea- vour to make acquaintance with a district that is not only beauti- ful to the eye, but has been the scene of many of those bloody actions between the Americans, (while yet struggling for their in- dependence,) and the troops of Great Britain, before the yoke of sovereigntv had been fairly broken. We imagine, therefore, that this trip will be taken by daylight, ;and we recommend to the notice of our readers, the splendid •steamers " Chauncey Vibbard" and "Daniel Drew," of the Day-line of Steamers. These are indeed floating palaces, for the speed and arrangements of the vessels, and the luxurious fittings of the saloons, are not surpassed by any other line of boats on the continent. The People's Line of Steamer^, the " St. John" and I i! !l 1 a 6 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANtrHAMIC GUIDE. a- < n ca o 'A » ALIi ROUND R )UTE AND PANORAMIC OUIDE. " Drew," are equally fine boats, and in their appointments unsur- passed by any Hteamcrs in the world. As they make the trip by nij^ht the scenery cannot be enjoyed to the fullest extent, yet a sjiil on the beautiful waters of the ''Hudson" by moonlij^ht is magnificent. The day steamers leave the wharf at J)e8brosse8 street every morning at 8 a.m.. calling at the foot of 34th street a quarter of an hour later, and run up tlie 150 miles of the Hud- son by 6 o'clock in the evening. For the first twelve miles of our upward journey we skirt along the Island of Manhattan, upon which the city of New York is built. One of the first objects of interest we see on the right hand, is the handsome stone edifice of the New York Orphan Asylum, where nearly 200 children of both sexes are clothed, fed, and taught, and ultimately assisted to find respectable employ- ment in the world. The happy and contented looks of tliose poor children are, perhaps, the most satisfactory proofs of the success of this inestimable institution, which, founded in 1806, by several benevolent ladies, has, little by little, progressed, until we find it now occupying the stately and comfortable house whose gardens stretch down to the very edge of the water. On the opposite side of the river, we pass by the yet picturesque villages of Hoboken and Weehawkcn. We say yet picturesque, as their close proximity to that city of cities, which is daily tra- velling onwards, would make one imagine that the villas and street palaces of its merchants would spoil their rural beauty ; but this is not so. How long this state of things may remain it is impos- sible to conjecture, as lager beer saloons, pleasure gardens, and restaurants are daily being r;iised here. Just above Manhattunville, ;t small village, and one of the sub- urbs of New York, chiefly occupied by the poorer class of people, is Trinity Cemetery, where, among many others, lies Audubon, the celebrated naturalist, who has also given the name to a small village of about twenty or thirty acres where he used to live, but which, since his death, has been cut up into building lots, and still retiins the aristocRtic name of Audubon Park. Just beyond this park a large building, surmounted by a cupola, and having a h 8 ALL KOUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDK. U>wor «t the ««uth-wo8t nn«lo, mny bo deHcriod amopc, the tree«. Ihi8 18 the Now York Institutu.n for tho Deaf and Dumb which « under the nkilful n.,n„n;e«ient of Mr. Peek, in probably unc^malWd by any nnnilar establinhnient in An.orioa. It Ht.nd.s in it« own «roundH of thirtysevon acres, an, (hve in nun.bor, arnm-ed in a quadranjrle) are erected i« one hundred and thirty feet above the river. This Institution alone aceoniinoda*x)8 four hun.irod an.l fifty patients, and is only one more n.«tance of the open-handed liberalitvand dincrinnnatinff f«re«,ght of those in the State of New York, who do their best to Mleviate distress, in whatever form it may appear, amono- their lellow-creatures. * ' o ^ We hero «i>proaoh, on tho same side, Fort Washinirton. or Washinj^ton Heights, as it is sometimes, and perhaps more appro- priately called. The ground is from five to six hundred feet above the river, and the view from this spot is exceedingly fine the eye being able to trace tho windings of tho Hudson River northward for many miles, whilst southward tlie groat city wo have just left, with its suburbs of Brooklyn and Jersey City, can be plainly seen, though ton miles off. Wo now leave the Island of Manhattan behind us, having by this time passed abreast of tho Spuyt^n Duyvil Crook, which separates tho Island from the rest of the State of New York The Hudson River Railroad crosses the creek by a long brid-c laid upon piles, and a station, called after the name of the inlet" is im- mediately on tho other side of tho bridge. On the opposite shore '!tu'^7\ , '"'^'"^'"'^^ ^''^"''*"* ^^'•°^^'^^*'" «f r«<^k called Ihe Falisades, commences about here. They extend for nearly thirty-six miles, and are considered by many hs the most interest- ing feature in the scenery. Commencing at Hoboken, this threat- ening ridge can be discerned as far as the Hook, towering as it wore over the river to a height varying from three' to five hundred feet, and tho apparently columnar structure, as seen at a distance, forcibly reminds one of the far-famed Pimral's Cave. About two miles and a-half above Spu^en Duyvil, the tourist will perceive a handsome stone ca.stellated buildin-. This was ALL ROUND KOUTB AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 9 erecU^d by Mr. Edwin Forn^Ht, the eminent traj.edian,.w a residence, •and m e;dIod Fonthill. Tt has now chiin};e the flouriMhini? vilhij^'c of Yonkers, near to which the little vSawmill Rivor runs into the Hudson. The whole valley throu M 9 m M O twelve million dollars. It is built of stone, brick, and cement arched above and below, seven feet eight inches wide at the top' aad SIX feet three inches at the bottom, the side walls being eight !l 122 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND rANORAMIO GUIDE. feet five inches high. A few more miles travelling takes us past the small village of Haverstraw. which gives its name to the lovely bay, and then past a limestone quarry, extending along the bank for more than half-a-mile, and two hundred feet in height, and which must prove, from the number of men we can see employed in it, a very profitable speculation. Two miles further on, on the western side of the river, is Grassy Point, a small village where bricks are made, and, again, one mile higher up, is Stoney Point, where there is a redoubt of considerable extent,— another one on the opposite side, at Verplank's Point, guarding the entrance to what IS called the " Lower Highlands." Three miles above Stoney Point is Gibraltar or Caldwell's Landing. Dunderberg Mountain rises its towering head almost immediately ip the rear of this spot. Direct! opposite is Peekskill, a thriving village of some five or six thousand inhabit- ants. The river here makes a sudden bend to the west. This is called the Race, and the scenery from here for the next fifteen miles is unequalled in beauty. On the right we pass by a rock promontory, called Anthony's Nose, whilst on the left or western side, we have the Dunderberg Mountain already alluded to. Anthony's Nose is thirteen hundred feet above the surface of the river. The Hudson River Railway has had to tunnel under the bottom of this mountain for a distance of two hundred feet. On the opposite side of the river, a large creek can be seen, where ves- sels of almost any size could anchor. The entrance to this creek is guarded on one side by Port Clinton, and on the other by Fort Montgomery— the two so close to one another that rifle sh«ts could be easily exchanged. Fort Montgomery being on the northern side and Fort Clinton on the lower. Almost immediately under the shadow, as it were, of the former fort, lies the picturesque little island of lona, belonging to Dr. C. W. Grant, and covered in the summer time with vines and pear trees, in the successful culture of which the worthy Doctor is suppose to be unequalled. A little way above lona, and but halfia-miie below West Point, we come upon the Butternn'lk Falls, caused by the flowing down of a small stream into the river below, and falling over the hill- ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 13 side a hundred feet in as many yards. This fall, when increased by any late rains or swollen by freshets, well deserves the homely name by which it is known, the snow-white foam truly giving it the appearance of buttermilk. Half-a-mile further up brings us to "Cozzen's Hotel Dock" at West Point. Here the vessel on which we are trarelling stops for a while, to land passengers who are anxio«s to remain a day or so at Cozzen's comfortable hotel. This, during the summer season, is a very favourite resort, and much crowded ; travellers would do well to make use of the telegraph a day before-hand to bespeak accommodation, or they may find themselves disappointed on their arrival. One mile more brings us to "West Point" itself, the most lovely of all the lovely spots on the river. It is well known that the great Military Academy is situated here. Space will not enable us to enter fully into a description of the course of instruction pursued here, suffice it to say that the fact of a young man having passed through the course is a clear proof of his being an officer and a gentleman in its broadest sense. The traveller may well pass a few hours in this locality, and if he should happen to be acquainted with any of the professors or cadets in the Military College, he will be enabled to go over the buildings, different galleries, &c., and judge for himself as tx) whether the instruction and discipline kept up is not likely to produce some of the finest military men— soldiers that any European nation might be proud of Reluctantly we must draw ourselves away from West Point, and allow our steamer to plough her way once more along the flowing current, and between the shady and overhanging cliffs which give so much character to the scene at this spot. A very few revolutions of the wheel will bring us between the Boterberg Mountain on the western side, and the rock called Breakneck on the eastern bank, forming an imposing entrance to Newburg Bay. from which a series of mountains hilla unA n]\ffa ^;o« i^ ^„« cession until they seem almost to shut out all remaining nature, and to give the idea that one is at the bottom of a large basin, from which there is no possible exit. Crownest is the principal I ,; i ",l 14 ALL ROUND ROUrE AND PANORAMIO GUIDE. Wrr""f ^"'' "f^ "^^''' ^^'''^^ ^'^"^ '^' "-^r bank to a height of nearly one thousand five hundred feet. As the side of this mount nn is entirely eoTcrcd with foliaj^e, the view of it in the summer time is most beautiful, and only to be exceeded by the s'ight of It in the commencement of October, when the fall tints ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 15 m o are in their richest and most luxuriant profusion. Soon after passing between the two rocks, we come to a small town called Cornwall, on the western shore. This is a place of very •Gen- eral resort in summer, and is much noted for its many pleasant drives and walks. Its nearness to the river and to West Point makes it a very favourite place for travellers to spend some few days, whilst many stay here a very much longer time during the warm weather. Between Cornwall and Newburg lies the once prosperous but now sadly decayed settlement of New Windsor. It is now almost entirely a collection of small houses in great want of repair. On the shore, but higher above it on the plateau, one can discover several large farms with comfortable houses attached, giving the idea that if there is decay below there is no want of plenty above. Leaving this tumble-down village either to be repaired, or to fall into still greater decay, we will approach the more flourishing town of Newburg, where the steamer stops for a few minutes to dis- charge some of her passengers and to take up others, and we will employ these few minutes in gazing at the substantial streets and houses of the town, which, by the by, we should have designated a city, seeing that it boasts of a mayor and corporation of its own. The first settlement at Newburg was made as early as 1709, by some emigrants from the Palatinate ; since then, English, Irish, Welsh, Scotch, and Germans have followed their example, but of all these varied nationahties the Scotch have, perhaps, done the most towards making the place what it is. The brewery of Mr. Beveridge is situated here, where ales are made which are known all over the country, and, on a hot day, are certainly a most acceptable " beverage." Among the large buildings is an exten- sive flnnnel factory, in which a very large number of hands are daily employed. Exactly opposite Newburg is the more modest looking villa^^e of FiSHKiLL Landing, from which place any traveller anxious to ascend the South Beacon hill can do so with the assistance of any of the boy guides to be picked up in the streets of the village; and let us "t?U the traveller that he had better avail himself of our 16 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE, advice and take a guide, or before he reaches the top he may have repented of not having done so, as it is quite easy to lose oneself in the numerous gorges and ravines that are about the summit of the Beacon. As this is one of the highest mountains about here, the view trom the top is most extensive and interestin<^ Far ud to the noi-th the Catskill mountains can be discerned, ;hile to the east the ..hu.vangunk hills are to W ... Soudiwards, a..,in Boterberg and Breakneck, already se, .d the pass through which the river running at our feet fina. its way down to the ^a But it IS time that we should descend from our lofty position and go on our way up the river. A broad rocky platform, jutting out into the river, cannot fail to attract the traveller's attention. This is called the Devil's Danskammer, or Dancing Chamber, and, down to a comparative- ly late date, was u^^ed by the Indians as the scene of some of their religious ceremonies. For about the next five miles we steam on through pretty coun- try, though without finding anything striking enough to draw attention, until we p.ss the little village of New Hamburg, lyin.^ at the mouth of Wappinger Creek, which is navigable for some distance up. The railroad crosses the Wappinger by a can^eway and drawbridge, and then pierces a promontory jutting out into the river, by a tunnel about eight hundred feet Ion-. New Him bui-g IS a pretty little village, but nothing more. About a mile higher up and on the opposite side of the river, is another small village called Hampton, then comes Marlborough two miles Ingher up still, with Barnegat nearly opposite, on the right hand side, and again Milton Landing two miles more on the left hand side. As these villages lie mostly on the high banks of the river there is not much to be seen of them from the boats, but they act as outlets or ports to the country districts lying behind them, and judging from the numerous comfortable-looking country-houses in their immediate neighbourhood, must be tolerably thriving. As already stated, these villao-P« a^a Lo>.fiKr ,%,.,„... .„.^- to require mention, but we now approach a town of some twenty thousand inhabitants, rejoicing in the peculiar name of Pough- ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 17 keepsie, and nearly half-way between New York and Albany being seventy-five miles from the former, and about seventy from the capital of tlie State through which we are passing. It was for merly settled by the Dutch, towards the close of the seventeenth century, and is situated, like most of their river cities at the mouth of a tributary stream or creek. The village, as it was then, has much extended, and now occupies the large open plain about two hundred feet above the river. THp sfr«ofa nm ^^^..;I u..^j some, and well planted with trees, affording in summer grateful shelter from the piercing rays of the sun. Poughkeepsie is best B I 18 AU. ROBKD ROUTE AND PAXORAMIC GUIDE. known for tho very excellent school., it maintains, a lar,o boardinj- ^.M for boys upon College Hill boin, panieuLly ,;,„vv„ed7fr the very excellent tu.Uon in.parted to the sehol.rs. Thi, buildin" stands at the b.cic of tl>e city, about seven hundred feet above the nver, and is a conspicuous object as seen from the water Six nnles above Po„.bkeepsie, after a sudden bend in the river we come upon some rocky and precipitous banks. This used tj be ed ed by the original settlers " Krom Elleboge," but has since been A„sl,c>sed .nt« " Cuu.« Elbow." Quite close to this, only h^h up Iron, the river, stands the village of Hyde-Park, cnllcd after a former Governor of the State of New York, fin Edward Hyde, who we regret to say, did not leave a very satisfactory reputation behind h,m; bis tyrannical and unprincipled conduct is well kiwwn to all who have studied the history of New York when under British rule. RiiiNEBECK Landing lies about two miles away from the villa..e ot the same name, which was first settled bj one William Beek- man, a German, who came from the neighbourhood of the Kliine and called the place partly in honour of his birthplace and partly after Inmself. Immediately opposite Rhinebeck Landim--, across the river, is Kingston's Landing, a quiet little villao-e, pleasant enough, but without any great activity apparent, though Kin-ston cement, which comes from here, is in much request. Between this and Hudson, fifteen miles off, we .come upon a number of large, substantially built and handsome country houses, with lawns of smooth turf stretcliing down towards the river, and an air of luxury and wealth pervading the whole estates/ Six miles above Ehinebeck is Barhytown, and four miles above Barrytown is TivoLi, each of them possessing a station on the railroad, though, like many of the other villages we have had a glance at, small and unpretentious, having, however, possibly a vast idea of their own importance, as a great deal of the form and garden produce of these villages is sent up to supply the wants of the Fifth Avenue, and other di.<5t.riAt.a r.f +},/^ ^j.^^4. -,:i.„ r\. • '" '•* vi^v, ^rcao ^;Uj. Opposite livoli, on the western bank of the river, stands a flourishing little village called Saugerties, at the mouth of the Esopus Creek. ii , ALL ROUND ROUTE Ax\D PANORAMIC QUIDK. 19 This little place boasts manufactories of iron, paper, and whitelena, and a fine fl.,,tom3 qu.rry. Two miles from San,erties we pa.. MALD.N, which hos backed by the Catskill Monnt .ins, and about ten miles on we come to the large village of Catskill. Pa^ sengers from .New York by railroad who wish to ascend the moun- tains, must alight at Catskill Station, and cross by ferry to t' e VI lage, and we sincerely recommend our travellers to avlnl them- selves of this trip. They will find plenty of omnibuses and .,Z to take them to the Mountain House, and the Clove, about twcj;. miles off. We shall not attempt to describe the scenerv, which at this point, must be seen to be appreciated. The Moui'itain House is^ built on a large platform, three thousand eight hundred feet above the level of the river, and can easily accommodate from two to three hundred guests. The view from this spot is of a most exten- sive character, and embraces a region of about ten thousand square miles m extent, portions even of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut being, on a fine d.y, plainly visible, whilst at least sixty miles of the Hudson lliver can be seen shining like a broad silver belt_ at our feet Besides the Mountain House, the Fall, must be visited, and we cannot do better than quote, and, what i« more endorse, a paragraph which we find in " Miller's Guide to the Hudson lliver," and to. which book we are indebted for much valuable and interesting information with regard to this locality ■ ^^ Ihe odious showman spirit that spoils so many attractive ^^ places the world over, has entered here, and turns the Falls on ^^ or off according to the amount of sixpences forthcomino- from ^^ lovers of what, considering the smallness of the stream when at Its best, may be called piteher-esque. But the Clove or Cleft ^^ down which the stream runs to the Hudson, is really wild and savage, and romantic enough for the most ardent lover of such ;^ rough scenery. These Falls are the outlets of two ponds far up ^^ the mountain, united and Jeaping down a perpendicular rock in ' two tails, one of one hnnrlrprl Qr,fl ^,V.l.i„ p„_x _ 1 u ^- 1.x n\ • , .\ ' "^"V '''''^y ""« another of eighty feet m height, and emptying through the Clove, a deep chasm, into the plain below." • ' f Five miles from Catskill Station, on the eastern side of the 20 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. river, we come to the largo and handsomely-built city of Hitdson, the chief town in Columbia '^Vmnty, one hundred and fifteen miles from New York, and thii .y from Albany. The city is built on ao eminence above the river, like many of the other villagCH we have pas^Bcd in our course. The streets are wide and well laid out, and altogether the place has an air of thrift and prosperity. The principal street is called the Promenade, and laid out with trees and shrubs with excellent taste. One side is built with handsome houses, and the other is open to the river, and runs along the bank for nearly a mile. Any one anxious to pay a visit to the Shaker Village at Mount Lebanon had better leave the boat here and take the train which leaves for Chatham three times during the day, and there the traveller will connect with the Boston and Albany Railway, and, after an hour's journey of twenty-three miles, will be landed at the Shaker Village itself. Space will not allow an extended notice of this remarkable village ; suffice it to say that cleanliness, and all the other cardinal virtues, reign para- mount. Order, temperance, frugality, and Shaker worship, are the things that strike one's senses on first arriving. Every one here is free. No soldiers, no police, no judges live here, and among members of a society in which every man stakes his all, appeal t ALL KOUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 1-1 O ALIi ROUND ROUTE ATHD PANORAMIC GUIDE. 23 their berth in tlic nhiepinK-car, (wliich is j)ut on to tho train here). and fin.l themsolvcs in Montreal at about nine the next n.ornin„, after having enjoyed a refrenhing and appetizin- breakfast at the comfortable and handsomely fittod-up restaurant in the newly- built depot at St. Albans. To those who are desirous of a more speedy transit between New York and Albany, we would say, that the Hudson River Railway, one of the best appointed roads in tlic world, skirts tho eastern bank of the Hudson, and passengers can enjoy the scenery at a speed of thirty miles an hour, in one of that Com- pany's elegant drawing-room cars. As we wish to tike our travellers to Montreal by the round- about, but more interesting route via Niagara, we will return to wliere we left them on the quay at Albany, after having landed them from the steamer which we have been reluctant to quit. If they wish to go on to NiagA-a the same night, they have not much time to waste, as the train leaves the depot as soon as the passengers from the boats can be got there ; and after a night's travel of about three hundred miles they will reach the Suspension Bridge Station at seven o'clock in the morning. Before leaving Albany, we ought, in justice to tl4e city, to draw attention to tho Stite House and tiie Dudley Observatory, about the only two build- ings of any character in the whole place, and these two are not very likely to strike an observer dumb with admiration or astonish- ment on seeing them for the first time. The view from the Capitol is doubtless very fine, as the whole of the city, and a large tract of the surrounding country, can be seen from this eminence. Some of our travellers, who wish to take things easily, and rest a night or some few hours at Albany, will find themselves very comfortably put up at the " Delevan House," kept by Messrs. Charles G. Leland & Co. They can then take the train on the New York Central Railway for Utica, en route to TRENTON FALLS. As these Falls lie only about seventeen miles ofi" the line of railway, with a branch railrocid right up to them, they ought not to be pass- 24 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. ed withont a visit. We will, therefore, take our seats in the cara at Albany, by the aorning train, change at Utica, and either hire a conveyance there to take us on, or get into the cars which connect with this train, and bring us to the Trenton Falls Station a little after noon. The river forming the Trenton Falls is called the Canada Creek West, but, as this name is not euphonious and rather a mouthful, the Falls have been named after the town or parish in which they are situated. There is no one special cataract at Trenton which in itself is pre-eminently wonderful, grand or beautiful. It is more the position, form and rapidity of the river which give the charm, and make it considered by many as one of the most picturesque and lovely spots on the conti- nent. As the usual passage for tourists is along the bed of the river itself, it can be understood that to see.these falls aright there must not be too much water. The end of July, or the commence- ment of August, is the time to see them in all their beauty. In order to justify their name, there are two actual waterfalls here, which, within a few hours' journey from Niagara, or seen after that mightiest of all cataracts, would be merely considered as "squirts," but when taken on one's way to the Falls, and viewed in connection with the surrounding scenery, are well worthy of the visit we pro- pose to make. The banks of the river are thickly wooded on each side with broken clefts here and there, through which the colours of the foliage show themselves, and straggling boughs and rough roots break tUrough the high rocks, and add to the wildness and charm of the scene. A comfortable hotel is situated in the village, where travellers can get all their wants supplied, and then take the cars back to Utica, where they can again join the New York Central line, and proceed via Kome, Syracuse, Rochester and Lock- port on their way to Niagara. As we presume that this journey will be made without any further stoppages, we shall skip all these places, and merely say that they are the ordinary specimens of American towns, having broad streets, avenues of trees, larj^e stores, and excellent houses, with an air of prosperity about the v^nole of them. ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 25 ^ Those who desire to travel from New York to Niagara Falls, via the Erie Railway, will find that route a desirable one, both for elegant and sumptuous drawing room and sleeping coaches, with which it is well provided, as well as the grand and picturesque scenery through which the road passes. The beautiful valley of the Delaware, the gorgeous Susquehanna, and the wonderful and charm- ing Wyoming valley, all present a picture to the tourist of unrivalled interest. Portage, on the direct line to BuftUlo and Niagara Falls, is celebrated for its Bridge, the largest structure of the kind in the world, being 800 feet long by 234 feet in height, spanning the Genesee River. Some conception of its magnitude may be formed, when it is known that in its construction 1,600,000 feet of timber, and 106,820 lbs of iron were used, and the design and architecture are such, that while undergoing repairs, any por- tion of it may be removed, without weakening the structure, or retarding or interfering with the progress of trains. It is here also the Genesee River enters a grand rocky defile, presenting, as far as the eye can reach, a succession of wild and varied scenery. The Upper Falls— just below the Bridge— have a descent of 68 feet, making the distance from the top of the Bridge to the b ttom of the Falls 302 feet. At the Middle Falls one quarter of a mile beyond — the water dashes in an unbroken sheet into a chasm 110 feet in depth, bounded on either side by perpendicular ledges. The lower Falls are a mile and a half from the Bridge, and it is here the scenery is most sublime. At this point the river, after a precipitous course of nearly one-fourth of a mile, descends 20 feet, and striking the base of Sugar Loaf Rock, which rises 100 feet from the bed of the river, turns at a right angle and falls into a deep pool. The rapidity of the water at this point, and the great height of the rocky blulBFs which skirt the river, lend enchantment to the scene. To quote from an eminent author : "If the Portage or Genesee Falls were in Yosemite Valley, or among the Alps, instead of twelve hours from New York, they would be visited and painted, and photographed, and written of, a great deal more." 2(3 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. '^ At Portao-e Bridtre there is a fine hotel, capacious and i'urnished throughout in modem style. NIxiGAHA FALLS. Having landed our travellers safely at Suspension Bridge, the choice of an hotel is the matter of first and paramount importance. General opinion is much divided on this subject, many travellers asserting that the American side is the only one to stop on and see the Falls, as the Rapids, the Terrapin Tower and Goat Island are all to be reached from that side, and from that alone ; whilst others take the broader view of the question that these minor sights ought to give place to the Falls, and t^ierefore the only place to obtain aji uninter- rupted view of the two mighty cataracts is from the Canadian side. We shall, however, leave this question to be decided by the traveller, and merely observe that the hotels on both sides are very good, viz., the " Liternational " and "Cataract" on the American side, and the " Clifton " on the Canadian shore, either of wliich houses can be well recommended. Before proceeding to give a description of the Falls, it may be well, eu^xissanf, to briefly notice the Suspension Bridge, which is admitted by all to be a wonderful triumph of engineering skill. The bridge is constructed for the joint purposes of road and pedestrian traffic, and for the Great Western Railway of Canada— the lower tier or floor being for foot and carriage pas- sengers, whilst the upper portion is used entirely by the trains. There is a small toll levied on all passengers, and a custom-house officer will make a cursory and rapid search lest any articles liable for duty are being carried across from the United States into the Dominion of Canada, or vice versa. Mr. Roebling, of Trenton, New Jersey, was the engineer of this Bridge, which, as the name implies, is constructed on the suspension system. The two towers supporting the entire structure, which is in one span (800 ft.), are about 80 feet high, and built on and into the solid rock ; the aggre- gate length of wire employed is more than 4,000 miles, whilst the entire weight of the Bridge is 12,400 tons. ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 27 Proceedinp; to the Falls, our task is now simply in as few words as possible to direct the tourist as to what to see, and how to see It. We will, therefore, explain to him that the larger cataract stretching from shore to shore, is the Canadian or Horse-shoe Fall, whilst the smaller one is the American. The dimensions of the two Falls must necessarily be a matter of computation, and they are estimated as follows : The American Fall, 900 feet across, with a drop of 164 feet. The Canadian Fall, 1,900 feet across, with a drop of 158 feet. The traveller in his first visit to this place is impressed with a sense of inexpressible amazememt. His emotions are not unlike those of the votary of necromancy, who, when once within the magic circle, trembles under the influence of the enchanter, even before he confronts the wizard himself HOUSE SHOE FALL. Who can forget his first view of this grand and stupendous spectacle? The roar- ing is HO tremendous that it would seem that if all the lions that have ever lived since tho days of Daniel could join their voices in one '^ Hullah's " chorus, they would produce but a whisper in com- parison to the deep ^obsk 8hok pall. diapason of this most majestic of all Nature's pipes or organs. The bridge which connects the mainland with Goat Island is eagerly passed, and we explore the whole of this curious crag, 28 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. which is rightly named, for it is found fantastic enough to sug- gest that g-oats only could find a com- fortable footing. The sublimity of the scene increases at every step ; but when we come upon the mighty Cat- aract we gaze in speechless wonder. But words cannot describe the gran- deur of this scene, nor the emotions THE RAPIDS, • which it excites ; neither can the pencil, any more than the pen, do it justice. The silent and the still picture wants the motion and the sound of that stupendous rush of waters. It is impossible to paint the ever rising column of spray that spires upward from the foaming gulf bglow, or the prismatic glory that crowns it ; for there indeed has God forever " set His bow " in the cloud, and cold must be the heart that in such a scene remembers not His covenant. As neither descriptive language nor pictorial art can give an adequate conception of the magnitude of this wondrous Cat:iract, some notion may be suggested of the immense volume of water falling over the precipice, when it has been computed to be nearly 20,000,000 cubic feet per minute, in the Horse Shoe Fall alone ; to say nothing of the Fall on the American side. It is calculated that these Falls recede at the rate of a foot every year. It is here that the beautiful phenomenon of the rainbow is «een to such advan- tage. if SUSPENSION BRIDGE ACHOSS THE RIVER. After much trouble and perseverance Mr. J. T. Bush obtained charters at Albany and Toronto for the "• ^ bridge, and com- menced the work in 1867. On the 1st January, 1869, it was opened to the public. The capital stock of the bridge is $100,000, it has even cost something like $120,000. The bridge is located about 1,800 feet below the American ftills on the American side, landing on the Canadian side only 8 or 10 rods below the Clifton 'A HI I ntirj ^ "^7 /o/V i3J3ti ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 29 '--^„ I I'l h l< I van- lined looo, I ted hide, ifton I a M CD < a < m u GBSAT SMPOBZUM FOR STEREOSCOPES AND VIEWS OF ALL I'AKTS OF "/HK WOBU>. PSotoirapto AIIidids and PIiotci[rapliic Materials. E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., 501 Broadway, NKW YORK, oppo»lt« metropolitan Hotel. ©1M1K@1R«@§. Inll'Tf *"""*""' P'""""*''** """""^ ^ distinguished from the flnent Oil mint. vi«nna. and Konie, and nupply tho trade at the lowe»t ratei. ©KA[?>[M]@§©@I?>1I§. LOVELL'S DIRECTORIES. G^lf^lsZlT''''''' DIRECTORY, corrected t. Ja, P^™f;.;^^.eT^^^^> directory, ejected . PROVINCE OP QUEBEC DIRECTORY, corrected to i Jauuary, 1871, price f4. ' PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA DIRECTORY c«- 1 rected to January, 1871, price $3. PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK DIRECTORY c«^ J rected to January, 1871, price 13. ' PROVINCE OF NEWFOUNDLAND DIRECTORY c.ii X rected to January, 1871, price $2. ' P^STpI^^^ ^^^ PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND DIIiEC X TORY, corrected to January, 1871, price $2. Montreal, June, 1871, JOFIN LOVELL, PiihUaher. QUEEI University if KX3 VlBitors may obtain f Views of the Fall Wlilcl Thoy are vir ImkI T U D C tovi-' tthe I nnC ge», a.) from tmrti the pruni Thoae who «all£ to ami « opportunity to ?oe and fail' afforded to those who ride. ' malce the entire circuit of seor's ofdce, (wliiro Inforiiii their rightT and pi i viloges B-4f" Tho prGaenr.o of On toloiated. THE T( 50 cents for the Dn $1.0U I'c • the SeaHo U CKN 058" Brief mention of tho p( \ ws B. & k. SAnNDERS. QUEEN'S COU/VSEL BARRISTERS. Universiry Koks and College Caps, ALWATS IN STOCK. Romaine Buildings, TORONTO, NIAGARA FALLS. -A.2\ri> ^ visitors may obtain froDi OOAT ISLAND, and the T.l.nd. connoct^d with it Views of ilM, Palls, the tiraud Kapids, and the Kivcr aborts Which cannot bo hiul from any other locality. THREE SISTER ISLANDS. ™S,T.t:~' THREE SISTER ISLANDS ««»"•■.- ..™„w. efi«a,f,«„,* .u r *'"*'^" IWLnilUWi from Goat iHland by brid- ThosP wh^TrV^^" '^"."'^'''* '"^^ "f ^t^^ "''P'''« '« obtained. ^ make the entire circuit of the Islaml w) Tl „i, V, S *f "7!? ^"' ^""-"mmcMai to soor's office, (wh.ro infonnatio, "o^ 1 t^ytlc^L' "can L ht^f a"^^^^^^ "*" '''"V thoirri^hti and privileges while upon thSnds' ^^ ^ interference with toK^ed. ' '"'''"'■" "' ^""'''' ""'* """"""• '^"'i the payment of per centage, is not THE TOLL FOn EA^H ADT^tt t.^^son IS: 9?.0S"Ar .*"?/:«* Sean^.^; I tir"'" '"'^"« "'" ""^ <" ^^^^ ^ '''« ^'^'tor n.ay :i5 CENTS Foil A CAnurAOE EACH TIUP. car Brief mention of the points of interest may be had at the Toll Gate, without charge. D. J. TOWNSEND, Oi-neral SupcriiitenUeiit. "Ibe '^BeU Story of the beUXinng Slory %Men. GEORGE MACDONALD Is the author of W,lkr.o Cumber ,. oh. the brilliant .cri.l story of An Illustrated Magasrino for the People. Conducted by J. G. HOLLAND, Author of Bitter-S-wm, Kathrina, Tmothy Tmomh^x Uttrn, &c Ita Portraits ar« egpeclally accurnS an*f ruSbl« Vh« m''*"" '^^"P^'ne-" THE EDrTOIlIAL DEPARTMENTS rSrSKSge l/jillj'/etr''^''"'''"*' •°*«"'^««*' ^-^ P' li -f BURNING SPRING Is about one mile above Table rock, near the river's edge. The water of the spring is highly charged with sulphuretted hydrooen -as and emits a pale blue light, when ignited. To heighten the effbct Ihe' phenomenon of the burning water is exhibited in a darkened room k THE WHIRLPOOL RAPIDS. The best place to get a view of this wild tumultuous scene, is about a quarter of a mile below the Suspension Bridge. Let the visitor by all means descend to the wnt^r's p/Ioo o+fi.;. ^..;^x mi •. . - O- •" viiiir- puiul. J. Ills IS the place where the Maid of the Mist was overwhelmed and lost her smoke stack. But one opinion filled the mind, she is lost ! ^ ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. ' 86 > li • !• i .■I MAID OF THE MIST GOING THROUGH THE WHIRL- POOL. It is now quite a matter of history liow this picture of a boat, which conveyed tourif^ts under the spray of the great Horse-shoe Fall, . successfully escriped the hands of the sherifFby skimming the whirl- pool. She left her moorings, about a quarter of a mile above the old Suspension Bridge, June 15, 18G1, and swung boldly out into the river, to try one of the most perilous voyages ever made. She shot forward like an arrow of light, bowed griicefully to the multitude on the bridge, and with the velocity of lightning pnssed on to meet her doom. Many beheld this hazardous daring adventure, expecting every instant she would be dashed to pieces and disappear forever. Amazement thrilled every heart, and it appeared as if no power short of Ommj)ofence could save her. " There ! there !" was the suppressed exclam-ition that escaped the lips of all. " She careers over ! she is lost ! she is lost !" But, guided by an eye that dimmed not, and a hand that never trembled, she was piloted through those middened waters by the intrepid Robinson in perfect safety, and .subsequently performed less hazardous voyages in the St Lawrence. She is the only craft, so far as is known, that ever made this fear- ful trip and lived. Thougli our hero had performed many hazard- ous exploits in saving the lives of persons who had fallen into the river, yet this last act, in t-iking the '' Maid of the Mist" through the whirlpool, is the climax of all his adventures. The boat lost her smoke stack, but otherwise received no injury, being very stronolv built. Three men were on board. Pilot, Engineer, and Fireman, all s.ife. i/ THE WHIRLPOOL, On the American side, is throe miles below the falls, and is 36 ALL ROUND BOUTB AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. visited on account of the wild «„d „,ag„iacent grandeur of its scenery. The river here turns abruptly to t1>c riglit, forming an elbow, and as the waters rush against theopposit banks, a wliirlpool is ^ fbrnicJ on • which logs* and often bodies have been known to float for i heir way out. ' ' "^ ""''"^ ^"^' ^"^'^^^ ^"^^"8 fbef and'?hi^ 1 1"'^ " "''"''' '^ ^'^ ^"^ineers, to be eleven • tcet and a half higher than on each shore, and the visitor often wonders how the ^' Mafd of the Mist" ever passed dorTere a^d lived, yet such is the fact. There is no perpendicular f. 11 external outletat the whirlpool. The distanceTol t i^ ^^^ «and ft.t; perpendicular heightof the banks, three hundred a^d THE DEVIL'S HOLE IB a large triangular chasm in the bank of the river three and a ::^lr ::' ''' ^* ^^^ ^^-^^ ^-^ ^ -vine :: ::i ta THE THREE SISTERS. wMeh Mr, Joe, K. nZTr^,^ :T^JZ f^t^^^ 01 1541 Mr A linn K„ • . , "^ "ic Buixiiner )f r n s * . ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 37 the misfortune to break one of his oars in the midst of the rivy. The current caught his boat and bore it rapidly towards the Falls. As his only hope of safety, he steered with the remaining oar for the head of Goat Island; but failing to strike thai, he was bearing swiftly past this little island, when, knowing that the alternative was certain doom, he sprang for the land, and reached it with but little injury. Having matches in his pocket, he struck a signal light at the head of the island, but it was not seen until morning. Mr. Robinson rescued him by means of a boat and cable. The first of the sisterhood, or the island nearest you, is called Moc*8 Island. That feathery show of a cataract between yourself and Moss Island is called the Hermit's Cascade, from i-,s having been the usual bathing place of Francis Abbott the Hermit of Niagara. if THE HERMIT OF THE FALLS. As we think it will be interesting we will here relate his story. About twenty-five years since, in the glow of early summer, a young stranger of pleasing countenance and person made his appearance at Niagara. It was at first conjectured that he was an artist, a large portfolio, with books and musical instruments, being among Lis baggage. He was deeply impressed with the majesty and sublimity of the Cataract and the surrounding scenery, and expressed an intention to remain a week, that he might survey them at his leisure. But the fascination, tvhich all minds of sen- sibility feel in the presence of that glorious work of the Creator, grew strongly upon him, and he was heard to say that six weeks were insufficient to become act][uainted with its beauties. At the end of that period he was still unable to tear himself away, and desired to " build there a tabernacle^' that he might indulge in ... .„.„^.„rj. j^uaiu-^s, auu auiuuu iix, leisure the suDumity of nature. He applied for a spot on the Three Sisters' Island, on which to erect a cottage after his own model ; one of the peculiar- ties of which was a drawbridge, to insure isolation. Circumstances 38 ALL ROUND ROUTE Ax\D PANORAMIC GUIDE. •Ml !i fo,bi,;,ii„g compliance with this request, he took up his residence ^ the state of the case would adn.it. Here he remained about eighteen months when the infusion of a family interrrpted ll hub,ts of seclus.ou and meditation. He then c^ietly iMret d^^ he.rH >T'r T!' " ''''''^'■"' ^'' "f ^d W"^"-! upon the hearth, and he begu.led the long hours of evening by read!n" drawn, thnlhng notes of the viol, or the softest meWy of The flute, gushmg forth from that lowbrowed hut, or the guitar breaTh n! :Z''rl "^t 't '"'' *""<'" "^"^o never L:* n torrent. Though the world of letters was familiar u, his mind jmd the hvmg world to t.>: observation, for he had travelled w"e"v' both m his native Eurone and tho P.,.. i, , "meiy, with mantind t. <'L . '' '"' '""S'" not association Thl T , 4 ""^'''J.o'-to increase his stores of knowledge Those who had occasionally conversed with him, spoke with eouai aSwth . '°''''™™' '•"*'^<' ««W«" "d sparingly admitted this intercourse, studiously avoiding society thoni *ere seemed ■„ h s nature nothing of misanthrlpy or mo'rosen!: On he contrary he showed kindness to even the humblest anTma b Birds instinctively learned this amiable trait in his characr a7d ftee^ entered his dwelling, ^ receive from his hands cruXr niofwiS"'''"'' «"""';"" "" ^'"^'^ '^»'^-- -- -n™«- mon with Niagara. Here he might be seen at every hour of the day or night, a fervent worshipner At tl,o „.. j i. visit ;t in tL -1 .r '""'""W^"- At the gray dawn he went to visit t n, the vail of mist; at noon, he banqueted in the full plendor of ,.« g,„ry; beneath the soft tinting of the lunar bow h lingered, looking for the angel whose pencil had painted it „d ut solenm midnight, he knelt at the same shrine. Neith 4 t e terms of autumn, nor the pi,,eing cold of winter, prev td ._- M me tcmp^ o, ,„s adoiaiiou. There was, at this time an extension of the Serappin Bridge, by a single beam of tin, ";;" ried out t=n feet over the fathomless abyss, where it hung uZ- \ I f ALL ROUND KOUTE AND PANt)RAMIC GUIDE. 39 f lonsly, guarded only by a rude parapet. Along this beam he often parsed and repassed, in the darkness of night. He even took pleasure in grasping it with his hands, and thus suspending himself oyer the awful gylf ; so much had his morbid enthusiasm taught liim to revel amid the terribly sublime. Among his favorite gra- tifications, was that of bathing, in which he indulged daily. One bright but rather chilly day in the month of June, 1831, a man, employed about the ferry, saw him go into the water, and for a long time after observed his clothes to be still lying upon the bank. The poor hermit had taken his last bath. It was supposed that cramp might Lave been induced by the chill of the atmosphere or the water. Still the body was not found, the depth and force of the current below being exceedingly great. In the course of their search, they jjassed on to the Whirlpool. There, amid those boiling eddies, was the body, muking fearful and rapid gyrations upon the face of the black waters. At some point of suction, it suddenly plunged and disappeared. Again emerging, it was fear- ful to see it leap half its length above the flood, then float motion- less, as if exhausted, and, anon, spring upward, and seem to struggle like a maniac battling with a mortal foe. For days and nights this terrible scene was prolonged. It was not until the 21st of June, that, after many efforts, they were able to recover the body, and bear it to his desolate cott uge. There they found his faithful dog, guarding the door. Heavily had the long period worn away, while he watched for his only friend, and wondered why he delayed his coming. He scrutinized the approaching group sus- piciously, and would not willingly have given them admittance. A stifled wail at length showed his intuitive knowledge of his master, whom the work of death had effectually disguised from the eyes of men. On the pillow was his pet kitten, and in different parte of the room were his guitar, flute, violin, portfolio and books, scat- tered, — the books open, as if recently used. It was a touching sight ; the hermit mourned bv his humble retainers, thft nonr ani- mals that loved him, and ready to be laid by strange hands in a foreign grave. The motives that led this singular and accomplished being, ■:i -10 ALL ROTOD KOUfE AND PANO«AMIO «WDE. »"oiety, arc ,till enveloped in ,„y,t "7 AH !, T' . """""' that his „a,„e w», Fr,meis AhTT,\ ' " ''"»""' *""' where his father wl e i.. n t 'tLTTr'™ "'■''"«'""'•' thcnee „„.p,e re„,itta„ees hrZ'oZln tL /TYl 1™" previou»)v asce,t,i„„,i i . comfort. These facts had been t - THE THKEE SISTER BRUGES. These costly and subfetanthil structures orp hnJlf ^ .u , from Ooat Island, presenting new and grand views of the R a and Falls, unequalled from any otlier point. T hlth 1 bri f combme strength and beauty. They are alike, b en! shXlv "^ that 18, higher in the middle than at either end thll ' their strength. The ends are fa^tenedtto tie 1 M l.t""!:^ rod«, two mehes in ^liameter pass under eaeh bridgl, aTd are a" the railing adds mueh to strength and beauty. A fourth isLd or SIS er. was discovered while the bridges were bein^b" t t^' a bridge has also been tlirown. From the head of tie'.v -termaybe seen one continuous Cascade Lf,1 I^'din!'! .^hore, varying from ten to twenty feet in height From ,1 mn.n.ure Niagara ri.es a spray similar to that ^f he gr rF^ under Goa Island Bridge, and much more beautiful in .appearance one slro To T"' -T "* *" "™'^-' "« --»- ^' uue spot on the Canadian sid*^ T.rV,orA v-^K^- » ,. - Y ™w of the waterfalls c;„rLi:::rtLt:r\t railway track that lies at the back of Mr. ZimmermantTout ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 41 untn an open .pot in reached near a small reservoir, immediately aoove the Fall., and as we feel that our language is too poor to give any ade,,uate idea of the grandeur of the sight before us, we wi,l take the liberty of reprinting the actual words in which ihat Sreat writer, Mr. Charles Dickens, clothed his thoughts and feehngs on his first visit to Niagara, twenty-eight years ^tgo, and which, even now, could not be improved upon, either in force or poetic sentiment : — ^^ ;' When we were seated in the little ferry-boat, and were cross- ^^ ing the swollen river immediately before both cataract., I be-an to feel wh.t it was : but I was in a manner stunned, and unable to comprehend the vastness of the scene. It was not until I ^^ came on Table Rock and looked-Great Heaven -on what a fall ot bright green water !-that it came upon me in its full might " and majesty. ° - Then, when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one-in.tant and lasting-of the tremendous spectacle was Peace. Peace of Mind— Tranquil I' hty -calm recollections of the Dead-Great Thoughts of Eternal Kest and Happiness -nothing of Gloom or Terror. Niagara ^ was at once stamped upon my heart, an Image of Beauty to remain there changeless and indelible until its pulses cease to beat forever. ^^ ''I never stirred in all th.t time from the Canadian side, whi- ther I had gone at first . I never crossed the river a-ain • for I '' knew there were people on the other shore, and in such a place it IS natural to shun strange company. To wander to and fro all day, and see the cataracts from all points of view, to stand upon ^^ the edge of the great Horse-shoe Fall, marking the hurried water gathering strength as it approached the verge, yet seeming too, to pause before it shot into the gulf below ; to gaze from the ^' river s level up to the torrent as it came streaming down ; to climb the neierhborincr heiQ-ht.«> nnA w..*nV, u 4.u_„.-_.i. ,i , u J ,, ■ ,. '■ "~ ..vc.ix iu I'iiiOugu uie trees, ^ and see the wreathing water in the Rapids huriying on to take Its fearful plunge; to linger in the shadow of the solemn rocks • three miles below, watching the river as, stirred by no visible 42 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. ^^ cause ,t heaved and eddied an.l awoke the echoes, being troubled yet, far down beneath the surface, by its giant leap; to have ^ Nmg;,ra before me, light. J b. the .un a,»d by the moon, red in ^^ the day s decline and .ray an nvo.ing .slowly fell upon it, to look upon ,t every day, and wake up in the night, and hear it. cease- less voice— thiH was enough, ^ "I t^'ink in every quiet season now, still do those waters roP ;and leap, and roar and tumble all daylong, .ull are the rainbow. ^ Hpanning them a hundred feet below. Still, when the sun is on hem, do they shine and glow like molten gold. Still, when the Ijay is gloomy, do they fall like snow, or seem t« erumble away like the front of a great ehalk cliff, or roll down the rock like ^^ den.e white smoke But always d<.es the mighty stream appear to die as It comes do^n, and always from the unf .thomable orave •arises that tremendous ghost of spray and mist which is never laid, which has haunted this place witli the same dread solemnity since darkness brooded on tl 3 deep, and that first flood before . o'od '' ^'~ ^^'^^~''"'' ''''^'"° '''' '''"*^^" ^^ *^^« ^^^^d of NIAGARA CITY. From the beautiful view here obtained of the Falls this . ] tee was formerly called Bellevue. The village has mostly grownup smce the time of the .-ection of the Suspension Bi/d^ at Z point A grist mill has been erected near the Bridc^e the w.ter wheel of which is placed beneath, requiring a shaft mtXZ to communicate with the mill, on the top of the bank. The town contains many fine buildings; prominent among these is a ve^y arge Railroad J>ep6t Niagara City has grown I rapidly, and is still so much upon the increase, that a general descript bn only can be applied to it for any length of time. . ^ LEY/ISTON. This village is situ:it3d at the head of navigation, on the Lower ALL HOUND UOUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 48 Niagara and is a place of considerable importance. It lies three mdes below the i>evil. Hoi ., and seven .ailes below the Fait the toot of the mountain. It i8 an exeeedin^^ly pleasant and very well built village, but it. comraercia IproHpeets have been very much injured by the con- Htruetion of the Er.e and Welland Canahs. It containH, benides a proportionate number of stores and hotels, churches of all the yariuuH der.omn.ations, and an academy of considerable size. In 181. It was the head quarters of General Van Renssaler, of the New lork Militia. , vi tuc QUEENSTON. This is a small village, situated nearly opposite to Lewiston, and cont^ns about .00 inhabitants. It was the Canadian terminatioro, the Uridge. and is as.o- ^ ciated in hi.^tory with the gallant defence made by the British, on the ad- jacent heights, in tlie war of 1812. The bridge hero shewn was unfor- tunately carried aw;iy by ice during tlie winter of 18G4. The village is qukenston suspension bbidgk pleasantly si^ uited, but it has suffered from the same causes that have retarded the growth of Lewiston. Near this point the river becomes more tranquil, the shores appear less broken and wild md thechangein the scenery affords a pleasing aa,.sitionfrom thesublime to the beautiful. The Monument here shown st:mds on the Heights ot Queenston, from whence the village derived its name. The present stnu^f.urM oc^ii»"pq tl>" "'t^ - *" ^h- ^' - ■ - • "- "*• "r«s in^ =ite t-i tile it;rmer one, winch was blown up, by some iiiiscreant, on the 17th of April 1840 The whole edifice is one hundred and c hty-five feet high. On the 8ubba.e, which is forty feet square and thirty feot high, are placed 44 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. four lion, f.ei.., north, Houth, east, and west ; the ba«e of the pedestal 18 twenty-one and a-half feet .square and ten feet hi«h ; the ^n^deHtal itnelf ,8 sixteen feet ^cjuare, ten leet high, surmounted with a heavy cornice ornamented with li<,n'8 heads and wreaths, in alto-relievo. In ascending from the top of the pedestal to the top of the base of the shaft, the form char.gcs from square to round. The shaft is a fluted column of freest^me, seventy hve feet high and ten feet in diame- ter, whereon stands a Corinthian capital, ten feet high, on which is wrought, in relief, a statue of the Goddess of War. On this capital I's the dome, nine feet high, which IS reached by 250 spiral steps from the base, on the inside. On the BROCK 8 MONUMEXT ton nfthn } • , "''''''' ^" tile ins de. f top of the dome is placed a colossal statue of General Brock. FORT NIAGARA. This fort stands at the mouth of the Ni',- With thisspot; as, during the earlier part of the past century, it was the scene of many severe wnflicts between the Whites and the Indians, and subsequently be- tween the English and iTOKT NiAGABA. thc FieDch. Thc names ALL RDUND ROUTfi AND PANORAMFC GUIDE. 45 Hero „,. «,.„„; ,„e t^'^ I^^:; t,'; nT'" ' "'.'-T- con,muud .,f the K.J.h '""' "'"' «""«™'l ^d to the NIAGARA. situated where the old town of New- ark stood, and is opposite to Yo«„.,s. town. It focos the river on one side. and Lake Ontario on the other. The trade of this phice has been divert- ed to St. Catherines, silice the com- pletion of the Welland Canal ; and the .on. .......,,,, other towns upon the Ni^^ara River have suffered in common from the same? c luse. I'Ommon, (For Detroit and Chicago, see page 127.) TORONTO. .^n,th.,o„eh,w„t.. ana thoX ^^Zr^TZ:! hvltl """"""' °" *" """■' P'^"™"' *>"">" 'he water ezourrion"'' Upt. ». M,lloy, wh.ch dailj makes two trips each way across Lake 46 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIO 13UIDE. Ontario, between Toronto and Lewiston. If this route is decided on, the tourist wih find the cars ready to take him to Lewiston a small town on the American shore, almost immediately opposite to Queenston, on the British side, and to which place we have already bent our steps. From Niagara to Lewiston the railway follows the course of the river, running along the hic^h rid-e over Poking the rapid stream, until we arrive at Lewiston Station Omnibuses and cabs will be found in attendance to take passengers down to the steamer, which lies about half a mile off. o'nce embarked, we pass along Niagara River for about ten miles the ciirrent still running very rapidly, until it finds its way into Lake Ontario. The first and only stopj ge made between Lewiston and loronto IS at the town of Niagara, 10 miles from the F.lls Passen- gers from the Clifton House can be brought by tlie cars down to this town without crossing to the Americin shore, and embark on board the - City of Toronto " here. Almost immediately after •leaving Niagara village, we pass between the Two Forts N^.-ara and Massasauga, the former garrisoned by American troops Ind the latter by the soldiers of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. These two forts are so close together, that it is said, on a c dm night, the watch-words as given by the troops on changing guard, can be heard distinctly from one side to the' other, across the water From this point we strike out into the lake, and in the centre almost lose sight of the land behind us before we discern tlie city of Toronto immediately in front of us. The view of Toronto from the water is very fine indeed, and, judging from the public build- ings and wharves, shows it to be a city of some importance and prosperity. Before we commen-^e describing it, however, we must return to Niagara to conduct our tourists who prefer the overland route by the Great Western Railway. They also will find the cars waiting to receive them, and after a couple of hours' ride they will reach the prettily situated and thriving city of Hamilton, built upon the banks of Lake Ontario, and the head-quarters of the ^rreat v, .....i, xvunway ut tanaaa, wiieie tlie general offices, engine sheds and W)rk-shop8 are located. Hamilton has a population of about 27,000. Forty miles more journeying brings the ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 47 iliilfili 'il'liilii,ii! ili i," ,:» yi " Sfie VIA I *■« 48 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. traveller to Toronto in time to catch the Royal Mail Steamer for Montreal, which leaves d;xily at 2 p.m. We wish however, to give tourists the opportunity of paying Toronto a visit under our auspic3S, and acting on our general system, will at ones direct them to an ht>tel where they cin be comfort ible. The "Queen's Hotel," belonging to Capt. Dick, and the " Ilossin House," kept by Mr. G. P. Shears, divid) between them the share of the visitors' patronage. With either, the tourist will be perfectly satisfied, and though the " Rossin House,'' which was burnt down a few years back, has been again built and furnished in a sumptuous manner, the " Queen's" h:-is also b3cn l.itely re-decor.iti'd and refitted. We shall, therefore, leave our travellers to choose for themselves, with confidence, as at either house the}' will be well cired for. Toronto is the chief city of Ontario, or Upper Canada, as the Province used to be called. It has a populatlnn of about 60,000. A large sand bar, of about seven miles in length, terminating at what is called Gibraltar Point, forms, as it were, a well- sheltered and accessible harbor. The former name of this city was Little York, until 1834, Avhen it was changed to Toronto. The streets are well built and broad, and some of the public buildings are remarkably handsome and merit a visit. The University is the chief attraction, and well supports its claim. The style is intended to be pure Norman, though in some of its minor details, modern requirements have made it necessary to depart from it. It st'inds in a large well-kept park, with avenues of state- ly trees leading into two of the principal thoroughfares of the city. The massive tower in the centre of the South facade is 120 feet in height. The Normal School and Trinity College are both handsome edifices, which will well repay a visit. All these buildings, being devoted to educational purposes, prove Toronto to be second to no other city in the Dominion for th? culture of the young. Osgoode Hull, where all the Courts of Law are congregated, is a handsome building enough outside, and inside the arrangements of the different courts, with spacious passages and galleries, are so perfect, that very many cities of more pretentions than Toronto cxn boast would do well to copy. The Provincial AtL ROUND BOCTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 49 Lunatic Asylum the Elgin Association for improving the moral 2drol.g,ouscond.tn>nofthecoloredpopulation,andthe Merchant Ex hange, should all be seen by the visitor. The English CathI dra de^catc to St. James, and the Roman Catholic" Cath 1 of St. Michael, deserve notice. There are one or two pretty drives to be made out of the city, though the country aroLd has "o much beauty to boast of. The most attractive one, perhaps I dnve along the road skirting the lake, which, on a fine , av i covered w.th boats of all shapes and si.es, from the RoyaML i steamers to the miniature skiff with its snow-white sails. As w have sa.d, the Mail Line of boats leave the wharf daily fori: treal. Travellers can go on board, obtain their state-rooms -.nd make the passage of the Lake ; but, as " variety is charmir- Zt ^unsts can, ,f they prefer it, go as far as Kingston by the Grl T^nk KaJway one of the Pullman palace cars.wUeh are C- atteehed to both day and night trains upon this railway, an h're take the steamer. This is one of the advantages of t/k ng a jo nl LAKI 0»TAEIO FKOK MiOiRA JHVlm. fcket at ISiagara Falls, which enables the holder to travel by either rail or boat, and m this way the option of conveyance is with the pas- senger, givmg h.m the opportunity of consulting his own convenience or inclmation, rJter arrival at Toronto, Tourists arriving from Nia- gara Falls can have three hours iu Toronto, take the evening train ana reac, ..mgstou m time to connect with the steamer which left Toronto at 2 p.m. the same day. For a short distance the train runs 60 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE, along the banks of the Lake and then it is lost sight of altogether. After leaving Toronto the first place of any importance we come to is PORT HOPE, which is situated sixty-five miles from Toronto. A small stream, which here falls into the Lake, has formed a valley, in which the town is located. The harbor formed at the mouth of this stream is shallow, but safe and commodious. Port Hope is a very pretty town ; on the western side, the hills rise gradually one above another. The highest summit, which is called "Fort Orton," affords a fine prospect, and overlooks the country for a great dis- tance around. The tillage is incorporated, and contains about 60U0 inhabitants. COBOURG i lies seven miles below Port Hope, and contains nearly 6000 inha- bitants. The town contains seven churches, two banks, three grist mills, two foundries, and the largest cloth factory in the province. It is also the seat of Victoria College and a Theological Institute. 31 id way between Port Hope and Cobourg is " Duck Island," on which a lighthouse is maintained by the government. At Cobourg the train stops about a (quarter of an hour, to give tra- vellers the opportunity of demolishing the very acceptable meal that is ready for them in the Refreshment Room of the Station. A branch line runs up into the backwoods to Feterboro and connects with the Grand Trunk here. The Wesleyans have erected a very hand- some building, called Victoria College, capable of accommoda- — — s — ^.!„., ,_...f..,.,i -^ ii„„ ciiov a. liiic Luv.n-iiiiii itna gaol, two very useful and necessary buildings in their respective ways. ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 51 ►3 (^ C W O 'ji H C 52 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANOUAxMIC GUIDE. KINGSTON. This place wascitlled by the Indians, ^^GitaravquV A settlement was begun by the French, under De Cour- celles, as early as 1672. The Fort, which was finished the next year, was called Fort Fron- tenac, in honor of the French count of that name. This Fort vras alternately in the possession of the French and the Indians, until it was destroyed by the expedition under Col. Bradstreet, in 1758. In 1762, the place fell intn the hands of the English, from whom it received its present name. Kingston is one of the most impor- tant military po^U» in Canada. It is one hundred and ten miles from Cobourg, and contains about 15,000 inhabitants. There are two very good hotels here, the " British American " and " Harwood House " and Tourists staying over will find every accommodation and comfort at either. [Before proceeding down the St. Lawrence we will retrace our steps and briefly notice the places on the American side of Lake Ontario.] KINGSTON. CHARLOTTESVILLE is situated at the mouth of the Gennesee River, and is the port ..»f Entry for Rochester. It is seventy-five miles from the mouth of *he Niagara. The Gennesee is navigable by steamers to Carthage, five miles from its mouth. At Carthage, passengers can take omnibuses to Rochester, two miles distant. ill uSvV±iGO is the next port, afler passing Charlottesville. It i& a beautiful and ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 63 flourishing town, and contains a population of about 15,000. It is the commercial centre of a fertile and wealthy part of' the coun- try, and is the terminus of a railroad and a canal, connecting it with Syracuse and the New York Central Rail- way. The history of ^ this place is associated with many hard battles, fought during the time „.„„ , f I, T 1- ^ VINCKNT BAILHOAD DBPOT ot the Indian and the French wars. SACKETT'S HARBOR. This place is situated about forty-five miles from Oswe-o and twenty miles from the St. La^^.•once. It lies upon the norlh'-east- ern shore of Lake Ontario, and derives its name from Mr. Sackett, of Jamaica, L.I., who purchased and took possession of it in 1799' It is admirably fitted, from its position, for a naval station, and is now the seat of a militury post, called ''Madison Barracks." THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. The Royal Mail Steamer, which leaves Toronto in the previous afternoon at 2 o'clock, is due at Kingston bet "een 3 and 4 the following morning. If we go on straight from the train to the steamer, we have a short drive to take from the Railway Station to the wharf, where we muH most probably find the boat ready waiting; and shortly after leaving Kingston we shall be amongst the Thousand Islands, which stretch themselves along the centre " -"" - ' '^ " aici;anuc wi -iU miies. xney are amongst the wonders of the St. Lawrence; situated about six miles below Kmgston. There are, in fact, no less than 1800 of these " emerald gems in the ring .f the wave," of all sizes, from the islet a few I 54 ALL ROUND KOUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. yards .-ciu.'iro, to miles in length. It is a ftimous spot for sportinj,' ; myriads of wild fowls of all descriptions may hero be found ; and an.;ling is rather fatiiruinj^r than otherwise, from the great (iu:nitity and fci"o of the fish. These islands, too, have been the FORT HB>RY— MARTKLLO TOWER CKDAU ISLAND. LIOUTHOUSil ON OME OF THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. scene of most exciting ibmnnce. From their great number, and the labyrinth-like channels among them, they afforded an admirable retreat fur the insurgents in the last Canadian insurrection and for the American sympathizers with them, who under the questionable name of "patriots," sought only to embarrass the British Government. Among these was one man, who, from his VIEWS AMONO THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. daring and ability, became an object of anxious pursuit to the Canadian authorities ; and he found a safe asylum in these watery intricacies, tlirough the dcvotedness and courage of his daughter, whose inimitable management of her canoe was such, that against hosts of pursuers she baflBied their efforts at capture, while she sup- piiC^a ilim TTiuIi pi \J V iCii-ruD 111 tueaC CUiiUilJ iUWOUtS, lUWlilg UllU from one place of concealment to another, under shadow of night. Bttt, in truth, all the islands, which are so numerously studded ALL ROUND SOUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. m m 00 through the whole chain of these magnificent Lakes, abound with materials for romance and poetry. For instance, in the Maiiitou- Im Islands, in Lake Huron, the Indiansbelieve that the '' Manitou," that is, the Great Spirit (and hence the name of the Islands) has forbidden his children to seek for gold; and they tell you that a certani point where it is reported to exist in large quantities, has never been visited by the disobedient Indian without his canoe bemg overwhelmed in a tempest. They firmly believe in this, strange though it may appear, and it IS the means of keeping them from attempting to seek for the supposed hidden treasure. CLAYTON. This village is situated on the American side, and is of consider- able importance as a lumber station. Square timber and staves are here made up into large rafts and floated down the St. Lawrence to Montreal and Quebec. These rafts are often very large, and as they require a great number of men to navigate them, the huts erected for their shelter give them, as they pass down the river the appearance of small villages. Many of the steamers and other craft that navigate Lake Ontario are built here. ALEXANDRIA BAY is die next port after leaving Clayton. It is built upon a massive pile of rocks, and its situation is romantic and highly picturesque. It is u place of resort for sportsmen. Some two or three miles below the village is a position from ^vheuce one hundred islands can be seen at one view. It BROCKVILLE. This place was named in honor of General Brock, who fell on li 56 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC TUIDE. Queenston Heights, in the war of 1812. It is situated on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence, and is one of the prettiest towns in the province. It is situated at the foot of the Thousand Islands, on an elevation of land which rises from (he river in a suc- cession of ridges. The town was laid out in 1802, and is now a place of considerable importance. The present population is about 5,500. Those who wish to stay here a few days for fishing or shooting will find themselves very comfortable at " Campbell's Hotel." OGDENSBURG is situated on the American side of the river. In the year 1748, the Abb.5 Francois Piquet, who was afterwards styled the " Apos^ tie of the Iroquois," was sent to establish a mission at this place, HB many of the Indians of that tribe had manifested a desire of embracing Christianity. A settlement was begun in connection with this mission, and a fort, called " La Presentation," was built at the mouth of the Oswegatchie, on the west side. The remains of the walls of this Fort are still to be seen. In October, 1749, it was attacked by a band of Indians from the Mohawks' who, although bravely repulsed, succeeded in destroying the pali- sades of the fort, and twQ of the vessels belonging to the colony. The Abb^ Piquet retired from the settlement soon after the defeat of Montcalm, and finally returned to France, where he died in 1781. Ogdensburg has increased rapidly within the past few years, and will doubtless become a large manufacturing place. The Northern Railroad, (now leased by the Vermont Central Company) which runs to Lake Champlain, a distance of one hundred and eighteen miles, and which connects at Rouse's Point with the railroad to Boston and Montreal, has its terminus here. The Northern Trans- portation Company's Steamers connect here with the Vermont Central Railway. The population of Ogdensburg is about 11,000 and it has lately been incorporated as a city. ; I ALL ROUND ROUTE AND TANORAMIO GUIDE. 67 PRESCOTT • > situated on the Canada ide ol the St Lawrence, opposite Oldens . irghand contains ov^t 30' a inhabitants. About a mile laelow the to n of P^escu^ ^ ^.iuce called " Windmill Point," are the ruins of an old stone windmill, which, in 1 ;7, the 'a»;itriots," under Yon-Shultz, a Polish exile, established themselves, but from which tlky were driven mih severe loss. About fi miles windmill point. below Prescott is Chimney Island, on which the remains of an old French fortification are to be seen. The first rapid of the St. Lawrence is at this island. At Prescott those intending to visit Ottawa, will leave the boat. This city, the capital of the Dominion, is only a little more than fifty miles distant from Prescott, and the journey to it. can easily be performed by railway in about three hours. We can confidently recommend this detour, on account of the claims of Ottawa itself, of which more anon. Passengers wishing to make this trip, can obtain return tickets at moderate fares, and join tne steamer again at Prescott the following morning and descend the rapids to Montreal, which is by far the most exciting portion of the whole journey. Continuing our journey down the river, the next town on the American side is Waddington ; and in the river, over against it, is Ogden Island. On the Canada side is Morrisburg, formerly "Ul If iP'i t ,1 GALLOPS RAPIJJS. CHRYSLER'S FAUM ^, J* ▼^ .o. ^s^ e ^^. \v "^s^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) // P .^ .^>^. M// ^ • descended with safety. The passage in thTsouth:™ llelt very narrow, and such is the velocity of the current Ihntfi '! .s said, will drift the nine miles in forty minut^l " ' " i\- DESCENT OF THE KAPIDS. This is the most exciting part of the Avhole passao-e of the St Lawrence. The rapids of the " Lono- gault" vJh i ! „i. „„_ ,, . ,.- ^ ■L'ong K^auit rushalonti-at theratp ot something like twenty "^ ^"^^^^es miles an hour. When the vessel enters within their influence the steam is shut cff and she is carried on- wards by the force of the stream alone. The surging waters present all the angry appearance of the ocean in LONG 8AULT llAPIDS. a storm; the noble boat strains and labors; but, unlike the ordi ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 59 nary pitching and tossing at sea, this going down hill by water produces a highly novel sen- sation, and is, in fact, a service of some danger, the imminence of which is en- hanced to the imagination by the tremendous roar of the headlong, boiling cur- rent. Grreat nerve, and force, and precision are here re- VIKW IN THE LONG SACLT. m 'l BAPTISTS, AN IKDIAN I^I^-OT, BTEER1n« A 8TEAMEB DOWW THE BAPIDS OF THE ST. LAWRBNCB. 60 ALL HOUND P.OUTE AND PAN0R.\MIC GUIDE. 51 m » < f- O iJ 1^ O « • ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 61 quired in piloting, so as to keep the vessel's head straight with the course of the rapid ; for if she diverged in the least, presenting her side to the current, or " broached to," as the nautical phra.e IS, she would be instantly capsized and submerged. Hence the necessity for eno.mous power over her rudder; and for this pur- pose the mode of steeimg affords great facility, for the wheel that governs the rudder is placed ahead, and by means of chain and pulley sways it. But in descend- ing the rapids a tiller, is placed astern to the rudder itself, so that the tiller can be manned as weK as the wheel. Some idja may hi entertained of the peril of descend- ing a rapid, when it requires four men at the wheel and two at the tiller to ensure safe steering. Here RAFT r.BSCENDINQ THE RAPIDS. is the region of the daring raftsman, at whose hands are demanded infinite courage and skill ; and, despite of both, loss of life fre- quently occurs. |.i 3 >5 a m « Ed IS ST. LAWRENCE CANALS. Gallops Canal, Point Iroquois Canal, , Rapid Piatt Canal !.!.!. Farren's Point Canal, !!.!!..!.!. Cornwall Canal, Long Sault, .'.*.' Beauharnois Canal, Coteau, Cedars, Split Rock, Cascade Rapidsj La Chine Canal, La Chine Rapids, Fall on portions of the St.Lawrence between canals from Lake Ontario to Montreal, From Montreal ^ "^ — Rivers, to tide water at Three Miles. 2 3 4 f Hi 8^ 41 Locks. 2 1 2 1 7 9 5 -^i L. Ft. 8. 6. 11.6 4. 48. 82.6 44.9 17. 12.9 234.| W m n tl 62 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. ! I The St. Lawrence canals were designed for paddle steamers, but from the nintmitude of the rapids and their regular inclination, the aid of the locks is not required in descending the river. Large steamers, with passengers, leave the foot of Lake Ontario in the morning, and reach the wharves at Montreal by daylight, without passing through a single Lock. BWTBANCK TO COUNWALL CANAL. DICKINSOM'B LANDING. CORNWALL. This is a pleasant town, situated at the foot of the Long Sault, on the Canada side. Here vessels are passed up the river by the Cornwall canal, and come out into the river about twelve miles above. After passing this place, the course of the St. Lawrence is entirely within Her Majesty's dominions. The population is about 3,000. ST. REGLS ! is an old Indian village, and lies a little below Cornwall, on the opposite side of the river. It contains a Catholic church, which was built about the year 1700. While the building was in pro- gress, the Indians were told by their priest that a bell was in- dispensable in their house of worship, and they were ordered to collect furs sufficient to purchase one. The furs were collected, the money was sent to France, and the bell was bought and shipped for Canada ; but the vessel which contained it was captured by an ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 63 m H > (3 C I)) o K O a c H > M CJ O » H ^1 ts il!i — c 1 1 : i 1 i i 1 ■ 1 ; 1 ' 1 ' ' I I! 64 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. English cruiser, and taken into Salem, Massachusetts. The bell was afterwards purchased for the church at Deerfield. The priest of 8t. Regis, having heard of its destination, excited the Indians to a general crusade for its recovery. They joined the expedition fitted out by the Governor against the New England colonist--, and proceeded through the then long, trackless wilder- ness, to Deerfield, which they attacked in the night. The inhab- itants, unsuspicious of danger, were aroused from sleep only to meet the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savages. Forty-seven were killed, and one hundred and twelve taken captive ; among whom were Mr. Williams, the pastor, and his family. Mrs. Williams being at the time feeble, and not able to travel with her husband and family, was killed by the Indians. Mr. Williams and a part of his surviving BT. REGIS INDIANS. family afterwards returned to Deerfield, out the others remained with the Indians, and became connected with the tribe. The Rev. Eleazar Williams, one of the supposed descendants from this family, has been mysteriously identified with the lost Dauphin of France. The Indians, after having completed their work of destruction, fastened the bell to a long pole, and car- ried it upon their shoulders, a distance of nearly one hundred and fifty miles, to the place where Burlington now stands ; they buried it there, and in the following spring removed it to the church at St. Regis, where it now hangs. LAKE ST. FRANCIS. ill ! i ! I This is the name of that expansion of the St. Lawrence which begins near Cornwall and St. Regis, and extends to Coteau du Lac, a distance of forty miles. The surface of this lake is inter- spersed with a great number of small islands. The village of The bell 1, excited ey joined r Eny-land ss wilder- he inhab- •e aroused hawk and )rty-seven nd twelve were Mr. lily. Mrs. jeble, and band and ms. Mr. surviving Deerfiekl, connected supposed ified with iompleted , and car- hundred ids; they it to the AtL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GIUDE. 65 Waster is situated on the northern side, about midway, of thi« >t!OTEAU DU LAC is a small village, sHuated at the foot of Lake St, Francis The name, as well as the style of the buildings, denotes its French origin. Just below the viUngo are the Cote.u Rapids. CEDARS, This vill^e presents the same marks of French origin as Coteau du Lac. In the expedition of Gen. Amherst, a detachment of three hundred men, that were sent to attack Montreal, were lost ^n the rapids near this place. The passage through these rapids is very exciting. There is a pecu^ liar motion of the vessel, which in descending seems like settling down, as she glides from one ledge to another. In passing the rapids of the Split Rock, a person unacquainted with the navigation of these rapids will almost involuntarily hold hia breath until this ledge of rocks, which is distinctly seen from the deck of the steamer, is passed. At one time the vessel seems to be run- ning directly upon it, and you feel certain that she will strike- but a skilful hand is at the helm, and in an instant more it is passed in safety. CKDAK RAPIDS. ice which ioteau du e is inter- village of BEAUHARNOIS is a small village at the foot of the Cascades, on the south bank of B r f t .' M 111 i 68 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. the river. Here vessels enter the BeiiuhariioiH canul, and pass around the rapids of the Cas- _^ cadoH, Cedars, and Coteau, into lake St, Francis, a distance of fourteen miles. On the north bank, a branch of the Ottawa enters into the St. Lawrence. Th(! river again widens into a lako called the St. Louis. From this place a view is had of Montreal Mountain, nearly thirty miles distant. In. this lake is Nun's I^^land, which is beautifully cultivated, and belongs to the CASCAUK8 KKOM KNTUANCU TO BKAUI1AUN018 CANAL. NUN'S ISLAND. Grey Nunnery, at Montreal. There are many Islands in the vicinity of Montreal belonging to the different nunneries, and froiu which they derive large revenues. LA CHINE. This village is nine miles from Montreal, with which it is con- nected by railroad. The La Chine Rapids begin just below the town. The current is here so swift and wild that to avoid it a canal has been cut around these rapids. This canal is a stupen- dous work, and reflects mucb credit upon the energy and enterprise of the people of Montreal, I ALL nouND RouTii: AND PAXORrMic aiin);:. 07 I . X wl i . ? ! I 1 ,1' 68 AU. ROUND ROt'TE AND PANORAMIC GUIDK. CAL(;nNAVVA(JA. This \n an [iidimi villn^'c lyino; on tho Kouth l);mk of the river, near the ontruuco of tlic J^a Chine llapids. It derived its name from the Indians thjit had been converted by the Jei*uit>», who were called "Ciuihnawaj;as," or " pr > in«< indians." This w. .s prob:ibly u misnomer, for they were distin;;ui^hed for their ])redatory incursions upon their neij^hbors in the cauuhnawaua villauk. New En<^land provinces. Tho bell that now han^^s in their church was the " proceeds" of one of these excursions. After leaving!; Caughnawaga and havini:; run the rapids, we pass ■the village of La Prairie, and immediately come in sii;ht of the city of Montreal, commercially and actually the most important place in British North America, and destined some day, perchance, to rival the population and the prosperity of some of the over<>rowu cities of the (31d World. Before landing her passengers the steamer runs alongside tho Richelieu Company's boat and as a matter of convenience transfers those passengers who intend going through to Quebec, without remaining over in Montreal. (We will now return to Prescott, and accompany those of our . tourists who intend making the detour to Ottawa.) Having disembarked from the steamer we cross the wharf to the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway Company's station, where we find cars waiting to take us on to the Capital of the Dominion. OTTAWA. After a journey of about two hours and a-half over the 54 miles •of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway we shall be landed at the very unpretentious station of the Capital at about five o'clock ALL HOUND ' UTli AN1> PANOUAMIU GUIDK. G9 p.m. Our stojw will n.itur.illy bo directed towjinlH the " linsNcIl lloiiso," iMidcr the ni iiiaoom.'nt of Mr. .1. A. (^.uin. Iluro acconinindntioM is pn.vi.lcd for ,.vtr 250 ^ru..Kts, iind every cnint'ort ufibrded nt u re;iHoii,d»l(^ eli;ir.re, the whoh- firranireinents hfintr carried on utid(>r the juTsonid siipervi^ioii of Mr. (;oniri, wht> will sec that Win visitors, duriti-' their ht ly under jiis roof, wint ior iK.thin-'. Ottiwa (or By town as it used to hi^ cdled) has been selected by Her M ijesty as the new (^.jiitd of the Dominion, the chief HOMt of (Government \vi\inir fhr m my previous y^'rirs l)een :'. ttled at th(! cities of Montr.vd, (^u-Ikm- and Toronto', in turns, for a c.Ttiin numb -r of ye -rs at each. Thi^ systmi vfi\H found to our l4l ill I 'il Ml iii,ji 70 ALL RCUND ROUTE AND PANOKAMrC GUIDE. !1!8 ; ! v;oi-k vory badly, oiid numerous quarrels arose between all of theso cities, and the jealouny stirred up against the one that happened at the time to be favored made it nccess.iry to choose some fourth place, and Ottawa was selected as being the most central and desiri.ble thr.t could be found. The Government buildings have consequently been erected here, and very much credit is due not only to the architect who ha.s designed these most beautiful buildings, but to ,the public spirit of the Legislature who have found the manns for bringing the work to a successful termination. The Parliament Buildings with the Departmental offices, and the Queen's Printing House, occupy three sides of a square, on a bluff of j^rnund overlooking the river, called Barrack Hill. They contain two Legislative Hall,, one for the Senate, the other for the House of Commons, both beftig the same size as those provided in the English Houses of Parliament for the Lords and Commons, and, like their originals, very handsomely decorated and conveniently furnished. A large Library is also provided, which at present con- t'lins over 65,000 volumes. The buildings are designed in the Italian-Gothic style, and constructed of stone found in the neighborhood. When it is st^ited that the cost was $2,500,000, and the position almost unique, the tourist ouglit not to* lose the opportunity of going there, as they alone are quite worth the few days' delay which must necessarily be devoted to the sight. The rest of the city, which is of course much increasing, and the whole of it nearly new, is very handsomely and substantially built. Sparks street, the scene of the assassination of the late Hon. T. D'Arcy McGee, is close to the Parliamentary Buildings and the Russell House. Like Quebec, Ottawa is divided into an Upper and a Lower town, the link between the two being the substanti- ally built bridge i.'pa\ining the llideau Canal, which here falls into the Ottawa after passing through eight stone locks. This canal connects the Ottawa River with Kingston and Lake Ontario, through a series of lakes and streams, running in its entire length about 135 miles. The other chief attractions in the neighbor- hood of Ottawa are the Chaudiere Falls, considered by very many to rank next in importance, beauty and grandeur to Niagara. ALL HOUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 71 They stand, or rather fall, immediately above the city, at its western extremity, the width ofthe greater fall being two hundred feet, while its depth is forty— tlie boiling, seething, foaming character of the water, giving name to the place. On the northern side is the smaller, or Little Chaudiere, and here the waters, after their leap, seem to go into some subterranean passage, by which they are carried oif until they appear again at a place called " The Kettles," half-a-mile lower down. Of course, the existence of such passages is a mere matter of conjecture, which we will leave 'U the study of Geologists, aud others interested, ^o determine. Before leaving Ottawa, we ought to pay a visit to one of the Timber Slides, which are tolerably frequent in the upper river. One is erected on the northern bank, and we will here tarry for a moment whilst we watch the fate of one of those huge rafts of hewn wood down its headlong rush. These water-shoots are erected for the purpose of getting the fallen trees from the higher lev^l down to the river, at the smallest possible cost, and wherever water can be obtained in sufficient quantity this has been done. Where the descent is very steep, these "shoots^' are broken up at stated intervals mto long straight runs, in order to destroy the impetus which the raft would natarally acquire. The descent on one of the rafts down the timber slide is a thing only to lae attempted by those who possess bold and steady nerves. To say that there is much danger in such an excursion would be to over-exaggerate the risk, whilst to say that there is none, would be as fa • from the truth. An application to the " boss' ' of a gang of raftsmen would, without difficulty, obtain the privilege of a ride down. The popu- lation of Ottawa is about 25,000. ijit. THE OTTAWA RIVER TO MONTREAL. Tourists desiring to go by this route can leave b^ steamboat wh:oh starts daily, Sundays excepted, at 6.30 a.m. At this hour, and no later, the " Queen Victoria," one of the very handsome steamers of the Ottawa River Navigation Company, commanded Pi lit '111 ■'I li 72.' ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDET.. by Captain Bowie, starts from her wharf, between the picturesque- . and thickly-wooded banks of the Ottawa River.. Soon after leav- ing we obtain a fine view of the Rideau Falls, which make their descent on the south side into the river.. The drapery or curtain- like drop has given it its name, and gracefully and gently as it falls over, it resembles more a sheet of thin glass than a waterfall- About a mile and a-half below Ottawa, the river Gatineau, one of the longest and most important tributaries of the Ottawa, flows, into the river. Shortly after leaving Otttwa, breakfast is announced in the handsome saloon of the boat, and 18 miles oflF our starting point, we stop at Buckingham.. Thurso, a flourishing little village, doing a large and satisfiietory trade in lumber, is our next stopping point, and after two hours' more steaming through really lovely country, (and with two more stoppages at villages, called Brown's and Major's, we reach L'Orignal. The Caledoniii Springs are situated nine miles away from this place. The medicinal and healing qualities of these Springs, of which there are four in number, are very well established, and during the summer months, people flock here in large numbers to partake of the waters and to enjoy one another's society. A splendid new hotel of solid masonry, and capable of accommodating two hundred guests, has. been erected. Bowling alleys and billiard rooms have been fitted up, and the baths increased in number quite lately, and supplied with every convenience. After seven miles more steaming we come to Grenville, where we have to disembark and take a twelve miles' ride on the Rail- way ears to Carillon. The reason for this is, that at Grenville,. rapids commence and continue for the distance named, and as they are not navigable for steamers, it would take up too much time for the boats to go through the Locks of the Canal. Opposite Grenville, and at the commencement of the first (Long Sault) rapids, stands Hawkesbury, where some very large saw mills,, belonging to the Hon. John Hamilton, have been erected. It is eomputed that at these mills alone, 30,000,000 feet of timber are annually cut and sawn. At Carillon, we find the "Prince of Wales/' (a sister ship to the oae we hive litcly left,} under the ALL ROUND KOUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 73 eomraand of Capt. Shepherd, waiting to take us on to Lachine. Before quitting this spot, we may remark that the Boundary line between the former provinces of Upper and Lower Canadi, now respectively known by the names of Ontario and Quebec, leaves the centre of the river here (which had been the division for m my hundred miles), and branches oflF in a direct line for the St. Law- rence. The banks of the river about here are high and thickly wooded, whilst its width varies between half and a quarter of a mile. On the southern shore the Mountain of Hioaud stand* out conspicuously against the sky. The small village of PoiNTE- aux-Anglais is reached a<. 2 p.m., Hu json, (where there are some extensive glass works), at 2.30, and CoMO, at 2.45, and here the river expands from about half-a-mile wide into a lake of about eight miles. This is called the Lake op Two Mountains, after the two mountains to be seen on the north side rising four to five hundred feet from the water. The highest of these hills is called Calvary, and held sacred by the tribes of the Indians inhabiting the small village of Oka, the place we see on our left hand, stand- ing at the junction between the lake and the river, and where our steamer stops for the last time before crossing the Lake to St. Anne's, The Iroquois and Algonquins live in this village together^ a stone wall running between the two tribes and dividing the vil~ lage into two, whilst the lioman Catholic Church- acts as the bond of union between them. Immediately in front of us we see the Island of Montreal, one branch of the river passing round the Island by the right (which we follow), and the other going round to the left, and henceforth known as the Back River. Three quarters of an hour more and we are passing through the Canal and Lock at St. Anne's, in order to avoid the small rapids which run to our right under the bridge belonging to, and crossed over by, the Grand Trunk Eailway. This Bridge, although on a much smaller scale than the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, is an exceed- ingly fine structure and must not be overlooked. St. Anne's has been immortalized by Moore, in his famous Canadian Boat Song,. and which is believed to have been written in the pretty little vil- lage itself. Many people knv the first two lines of tlie cliorus — t-M 11! 74 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. Row, brothers, row, &c., — and no more, so we fancy it will not be out of |>lace to reproduce it here in its short entirety : " Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tuno, and our oars keep time. Soon as the ^voods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Anne's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids Hxe near and the daylight's past. " Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl^ But when the wind blows from off the shore, Oh, sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast. The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. " Uttawas' tihe ! this trembling moon Shall see us float o'er thy surges soon. Saint of this green isle ! hear our prayers. Oh, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast. The Rapids are near and the daylight 's past. Buring the summer months St. Anne's is visited by large num- bers of families from Montreal, its nearness to the city making it easy of daily access for business men, whilst the charming oppor- tunitijs it offers for fishing and aquatics renders it very justly sought after by the angler and amateur sailor. A mile below St. Anne's, we get into Lake St. Louis, where the Ottawa and St. Lawrence unite for the first time. The " Prince of Wales" is due to arrive at Lachine at 4.20 p.m., and the cars of the Champlain section of the Grand Trunk Railway will be in waiting to take her passengers direct to Montreal, which place they will reach about 5 p.m. No one should come to Montreal without " shooting the Rapids," and to those who reach it by train, or from the Ottawa River, it is quite easy for them to enjoy the excitement ; for every morning at 7 o'clock a train leaves Bouaventure Station for Lachine, con- necting with the beautiful little steamer " Beauharnois," which starts from the Railway Wharf as soon as she has her freight of travel- Alh BOUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 75 lers, shoots the rapids, passes under the Victoria Bridge, and lands her passengers again in Montreal by nine in the morning, with an appetite for breakfast much heightened by their early excursion. (For New York direct, see page 126.) MONTKEAL, the largest and most populous city, in fact the commercial metro- polis of British North America, is pleasantly situated upon the south shore of an island ; and at the base of Mount Royal, from which both the city and the island take their name. Its popula- tion is about 150,000. The island is about thirty miles long, and ten broad, and is formed by the River Ottawa debouching into the St. Lawrence, at its western and eastern extremities, the former near St. Anne's, the latter at Bout de I'lsle. It is famed for the fertility of its soil. The city was founded in 1642, upon its present site, and for a long time bore the name of Ville Marie. Hochelaga was the name of the original Indian village, upon which a portion of the city is built, and the eastern suburb of it still retains the name. It was first explored by Jacques Cartier in 1535. Of its early history nothing has tome down to us beyond that the French settlers were constantly annoyed by the ravages of the Iroquois Indians. In 1 758 it had a population of about 4000 souls, and had evidently been laid out upon the old French plan of narrow streets, and was divided, as now, into upper and lower town ; the upper part then being the level of the present Court House. According to an old chronicle : "In the lower town the merchants and men of business chiefly resided, and here also were the place of arms, the royal magazines, and the Nunnery Hospital. The principal buildings were in thf ipper town, such as the palace of the Governor, the houses of the cnief officers, the Convent of the Recollets, the Jesuits' Church and Seminary, the Free School, and the Parish Church. The houses were solidly constructed in that semi-monaBtic style peculiar to Rouen, Caen, and other towns in Normandy ; some of the buildings of that period are still stand- 76 ALL ROUND KUUTK AND PANOU.VMKJ OdIDE. 11 1 I ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 77 ing. It was for !i lon ^^^n-h nearly ^0,000 lbs.; It has a deep hxne sound, and is used as a fire alarm. I he tower on the right can be ascended on^he payment of a small tee, and from its battlement a most wonderful prospect is obtained-^ the broad rolling waters of the St. Lawrence, nearly two miles wide lying almost at the feet of the spectator, covered with shipping; to the nght the Victoria Bridge, Nun's Island, the village of Laprairie ^th the glittering steeple, the boiling rapids of Lachine, the blue hills of Vermont in the far off distance-to the left, the beautiful island of ht. Helen's <;overed with trees clothed in the proud pros- perity of leaves, the villages of St. Lambert and Long«eu|l, aud *.he river studded with islands, until its silver course is lost at the village ot Vercheres, On thesideofthesquarefacingthe Cathedral are the Montreal and Uty Banks. The former is one of the most imposing pul lie buildings m the city; it is built of cut limestone; its style modern Grecia^ Un the left hand of the square are the Merchants Bank, Ontario Bank, the London and Liverpool Insurance Company's office. The former IS built of Ohio sandstone; the style is Italian; the propor- tions are g()(,d. This row is a pretty piece of street architecture Un the right hand side is a fine block called Muir's buildin-s a very imposi.ig edifice. The fourth flat is occupied by the ho'norable fraternity of Ireemasons, holding under the Canadian Kegister The lodge room is 52 feet long by 34 wide, and is 16 feet hic^h' There are several ai.te-rooms. The interior of the lodge room is weli furnished and decorated. Next to this block is the British and American Express offices, and the Cosmopolitm Hotel, kept by ^-lanehi. The cei.tre of the square is laid out as a garden, with a noe fountain. 8f ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE, Proceeding' up Notre Dumc-strt^t the tourist need not pauw? to examine NcIhou's monument, but can turn to the left and view the Court House, an Ionic structure, about a hundred and twenty feet long by about seventy in hei}^ht ; it cont:iins all t.ie judiciary courts, as well as the Prothonotnry's office and Court of Bank- ruptcy. There is a very valuable law library, containing upwards- of (},000 volumes. At the back of the Court House is the Champ de Mars, a well kept parade ground,, upon which the Volunteer Militia parade ; uiM)n ifc three thousand troops may be manteuvred- This ground was used for the regular British Troops when quartered in Canada. We will now point out the most important places and things of interest in the eity tor vidnity of Montreal, worth seeing. Foremost is the Geological Museum, facing the Champ de Mars, in St. Gabriel-street ; this is an institution that Canada may well be proud of.. It is under the direction of that able geologist, Sir Wm. Logan; this science has never had one connected with it whose soul was more in his work, and whose ability was better able to direct the geological survey of so great a nuneral country afi Canada. The University of McGill College, with its museum, and that of the Natural History Society, near the English Cathedral, are well worthy of inspection. The tourist can gain information rela- tive to the zoology and ornithology of Canada ; and to those wlur are disciples of Isaac Walton, the curator of the Natural History Society can give any information regarding the fishing grouini.-. It has been remarked, " let me see the resting place of tl.. lead and I will form an estimate of the living." Granting the premises, we can say, go to the Mount Koyal Cemetery. It will compare favorably with tbc far-famed Pere la Chaise at Paris. The ceme- tery is passed in vhnxh Q-aWeA " the drive round the two mountnns ;" this is a favoriu, ds >'. dul with the inhabitants of Montreal, and a - j_i:._v,*A,i ,Jv',tp if io- frnino-Kv St, TiflwrenRft-street. thcrc is a ver^' ciciigiiii"i UiiT«- .• i.T , ^ -5 ~j — fine country from C6te des Neiges across the island to the " Back River" or Ottawa, with its numerous hamlets, convents and ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC QUIDH. ^f Churches ; and for a picnic commend uh to the PMs U,nJ, clc»He to he old null by the rapid.s, «uult au KecoJlet, a delightful Hpot, and where, during the .eason, a good d«y'« fiHhing is to be The Victoria Bridge ought to be visited ; visitors are allowed to examine the first tube without an order, and as they arc all alike to see one tube is to see all. The Bridge is a wonderful structure und reflects as much credit on the successful builders m upon the origmal des,gT,ers. The bridge proper rests upon twenty-four piers and is about a mile and a quarter long. The piers are all at a dis' tance of 242 feet, with the exception of the two centre piers ; these are 660 feet; upon these rest the centre tube, which is (JO feet above the summer level of the St. Lawrence. At the centre of the bridge 18 an opening, from this there is a magnificent view of the river. MONTKKAL AXO VICTOniA BKIDGE, ." The bridge is approached by two massive embankments, the one on the Montreal side being 1200 feet, and that on the south, shore 800 feet in length ; which together including the abutments make the tot-.l length of the bridge 9084 feet, or a mile and three quarters nearly. The abutments are each, at the base, 278 feet long, and are built hollow, having eight openings or cells, 48 feet in length and 24 feet mmmm ■m ■noH 84 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. ill width, w>pi»ratod by croHH-wnlln 5 feet in tliiekiiesH. The flank- wull on the dov;n-,^troam side rineH nearly perpendieular, and i« seven ieet in thickneHH ; that on the np-wtream lias a wlopo from its foundati«)n upwardt* ; the thicknesH of tlie walks is 12 feet, and they present a smooth suri'ace to fa;Mlitate the operation of the iee, on whieh ueeount its i'orm had been thus determined. To ensure gre;;ter resist:mce to the pressure of the ice, the ci«.lls are filled up with earth, stone, and <;ravel, so that one wlid mass was thus obtained. The embankments arc solid, composed of stojio 3() feet above *ihe suuuner water level, and of the width of HO feet on the upper surface, formed with a slope of one to one on the down side of the stream, and a liollow shelvinu; slope of about 2^ to one on the upper side. The slopes are faced with stoucs set on edge at an average angle of 45*''. The piers are solid, and constructed, as well as the abutincnts^ of the finest description of ashlar masonry, laid in horizontal courses mcjusuring from 7 to 12 feet on the bed, and from 3 ft. 10 in. to 2 ft. in. thick, above the water level, and thence varying into a course of 18 in. under the plates. The stones were cut with the greatest exactness, seldom requiring to be re-dressed after being l.iid. They weigh from 7 to 17 tons j the average weight oitMch stone is 10^ tons. All the beds and vertical joints are s(iuare, dressed in the uiost efficient and workmanlike manner ; the exter- ,nal face rough, and without any pick or tool marks, but with the . natural quarry face preserved. The string-courses and copings are fair-picked, dressed through- .oat, antl neatly pointed and weathered, and a tool-draft, eight inches wide, on each quoin. Each course of the ice-breaker is secured with fox-wedged bolts of 1^ inch iron, whieh pass through into the 2nd and 3rd coifrses under it ; and the horizontal jo'uts are cramped together with iron cramps 12 H 5 inches, through which kthe bolts pass. The description of stone used is a limestone of the Lower Silu- eight ALL UOUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUrDE. 85 rian order, und known under the Geolo^rjctl term of Cha/v The average height of the piern above the H.unn.er water level in 48 feet graduMliy rining from . height of 81} foot at the abutm<.,t,s to W) eet at the eentre pier, giving a grade of ] in ^2, or 40 feet t^ the mile I he eontre sp.n in level. K.eh pier i« furninhed w th ,., M cn.i-w.-.tor, or ice-breaker, which fonnn u porti<,n of the Vn'r Itself. They nre of a wedge forn,, and .slope fro„. their foun- X" comparative ease-even by ladie^by a circuitous path, passing (through a maple grove, which leads to a beautiful lake '■ Ahe hollow of the mountain. This lake abounds with "fish Jthe general resting ] summit of -which usee iOiiiiCu ill his is .e, oetore the ascent to the peak, upon the be a small oratory, surmounted with a huge 88 ALL UOUNI> KOUTB AJTD PANOltAafIC CJUIUK. liB I >t I ■I;! .M! I ill ! il I' n ■' I 'III l''l I III; 'il' mill'! l' III il! , 111 i:l|i'i III '!ilii; m '' 1 !!i :i ill ill i' II 111 |ili ii!!i|j' II i" III ! I' ir III' I lllii \U ■■ I' r ''illli 'ii|illllPI!il>'IMii V • Il iiii ill I'li m nil 11 i|| V w pa u u aj. ?! u Of at ALL ROUND ROUTE AND V MiOUAMtC OUIDK croHH coveml with bri^^httin; thi« crosH wa« vi.iM. „,,w,nlHof nr y „.K.. 1.,,, the mt<. of the oratory, about 1,500 f!,,, ,,,„,,, ^u, lovd of the I Wer 8t. Lawrence, can be obtained a p.nu.r.nue view, sixty i-iles in radiuH. ^ From Monu-eal, we propose to take our travelh^rn down the nver to Quebec, and, an we have r.ow mentioned the chief pointH to be Heen in this intorenting city, we will prepare for our d.,, -r- ture. » The llicheli«,u Company own two Hplendid veHHels, the "Mont.v .]" and the - Quebec," which make the trip between Montreal ..nd Quebec every nio-ht, except Sunday, during the time that navi .•.•,- H,n IS open. Any traveller preferring the land route, can tdce ti.e trains leaving Bonaventure Ntati(,n on the Grand Trunk llMil- way, and, after an eight hours' journey, be deposited at J'oint Levi, opposite ^' the Ancient Capital," as Quebeeors are f(,nd of styling their city, whence a stenm ferry will soon land tlu.n across the river. To our miiul, however, the most ...greeable route is to go on board the '' Montreal" or ^' Quebec," takc^a stateroom, and b. landed early next morning at one of the quays of Quebec. 4j LONGUEUIL in a small village on the south bank of the river, three miles below Olontroal. . WILLIAM IIENKY, or Sorol is «itu„tcd ni the junction „f the Richelieu, the outlet of Lake Ch,,,nphun with the St. Lawrence. It i« forty-five n.il,.., below M„„ real, and ,„ the fir«t *,,,,,ing-pl„ce for Ktcamerson tl„.ir way to Quebec. The town i« VM out in the form of a fn„„lr„„.,l,. lieh and contiins a number of good build ings, the principal of wl are the Roman Catholic and the English churches. The tion is over 3000 Jiopuh 90 ALL ROUND ROUTK AND PANORAMIC 8t. Peter, eijj;hty-two miles below Montreal. It is a piaec; ol" but little importance. w ( ttl.>.MAN CATHOLIC I'AttlSlI CllUUCn. KUN8 THREE RIVERS is situated at the confluence" of the rivers St. Maurice and St. Lawrence, ninety miles below Montreal, and the samo distance above Quebec. It is one of the oldest settled towns in Canada, having been founded in 1618. It is well laid out, and contains many good buildings, among which are the Court House, the Gaol, the Roman Catholic Church, the Ursuline Convent and the English and Wesleyan Churches. The population is 9000. ALL II.JIJND ROUTI] AND PANOnAMfC OUrDK. 91 92 ALt ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. BATISCAN is situated on the north shore of the river, one hundred and seven- teen miles below Montreal. It is the kst place at which the steamers stop before reaching Quebec. It is a place of little importance. In passing down the St. Lawrence from Montreal, the country upon its banks presents a sameness in its general scsncry, until we approach the vicinity of Quebec. The villages and hamletn are decidedly French in character and are generally made up of small buildings, the better class of which are painted white or whitewashed with red roofs. Prominent in the distance appear the tile-covered OANADXAI* HABITANTS. gpires of the Catholic Churches, which are all constructed in that unique style of architecture so peculiar to that church. • CANADIAN FAS» HOUSE, hi es de to: en- the ttle try we jire led red - ^at ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC QUIDB. 98 The rafts of timber afford a highly interesting feature on the river as the traveller passes along. On eaeh a shed is built for the raftsmen, some of whom rig out their huge, unwieldy craft with gay CANADIAN PRIEST. CANAUIAN PKASA NT. streame^h flutter from the tops of poles. Thus, when several ^<^^^^. of taese rafts are grappled together, forming as It were, a floating isL.nd of timber half a mile wide and a mile long, the sight is ex- tremely picturesque ; and when the voices of these hardy sons of the forest and the stream jom in some of their Canadian boat songs, the wild music, borne by the breeze along the water, has a charming effect. Myriads of these rafts may be seen lying in the coves at Quebec, ready to be shipped to the different parts of the world. i i CAHADIAN BOATMEN. QUEBEC. As soon as the traveller is landed, we recommend him to make his way as quickly as possible to the "St. Louis Hotel " which deserve to be classed amongst the most enterprising hotel propri^ tors on the American continent. At this house the tourist will 94 ALL hOUND ROUTE AND PAJ(ORAMlU GUIDE. f find himself at home and well cared for, surrounded by every com- fort he can jwssibly desire. The " St. Louis " has been very much enlarged and improved, to meet the increasing requirements of the American travel, and too much credit cannot be awarded to the Messrs. llussell, who are ever ready to embark tVeir means for the purpose of inducing their friends from the States to pay the old Capital a visit. Every modern convenience and luxury is to be found in this hotel, and we are quite satisfied that the ex- perience of any one who may visit Quebec will be like our own, and lead to oft repeated journeys to the old City. Quebec, until recently the capital of United Canada, is situated on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, in lat. 46 deg. 48 min. north, and long. 71 deg. 15 min. west, from Greenwich. It was founded by Charlevoix, in 1G08, on the site of an Indian village, called Stadacona. It is the second City in British America, and has a population of about 75,000. The form of the city is nearly that of a triangle, the Plains of Abraham forming the base, and the rivers St. Lawrence and St. Charles the sides. It is divided into two parts, known as the Upper and the Lower Towns. The Upper Town is itrongly fortified, and includes within its limits the Citadel of Ci pe Diamond, which is known to be the most for- midable fortress ;n America. The Lower Town is built upon a narrow strip of land which runs at the base of the Cape and of the high ground upon which the Upper Town stands, and the suburbs of St. Roch's and St. John's extend along the river St. Charles and to the Plains of Abraham. Quebec was taken by the British and colonial forces in 1629, but restored to France in 1632; and was finally captured by Wolf in 1759, and, together with all the French possessions in North America, \ as ceded to Great Britain at the peace of 1763. Quebec, including the city and suburbs, contains 174 streets ; among the principal of which are the following : — St. John's-street, which extends from Fabrique-stree to St. John's-gate, in the Upper Town, and is occupied chieflv hv rptail sfnrps- S!t T.ni.^o- Street, a handsome and well built street, extending from the Place d'Armes to the St. Louis-gate, and occupied principally by lawyers ALL BOUND ROUTE AND PAXOIUMIC GUIDE. 96 I li 96 ALL ROUND ROirifi AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. o'ficos and private dwellings ; D' Auteuil-street faces the EHplanade und the ground where the artillery arc drilled, nnd is an elegjint 8treet, mostly of private dwellings ; Grand AlUe, or St, Louu- roid outside Ht Louis-gato, and leading to the Plains of Abra- ham, is a pleasant and beautiful street, on which are many elegant villa residences ; *S^^ John-street without, is also a fine street, occupied by shops and private dwellings. The principal street in the Lower Town is *SV. refer, on which, and on the wharves and small streets which branch from it, most of the banks, insurance companies, and merchants' offices are situated. Durhinn Trrracc, in the Upper Town, is a platform commanding asple'Mlid view of the river and the Lower Town. It occupies the site of the old castle of St. Louis, which was burnt in 1834, and was erected by the nobleman whose name it bears. The Pahlic Garden fronts on Des Carri^res-street, Upper Town and contains an elegant monument, which was erected to the memory of Wolf and Montcalm, in 1827. The height of this monument is 65 feet ; its design is chaste and beautiful, and no stranger should leave Quebec without visiting it. The Place d'Armes is an open piece of ground, around which the old chateau of St. Louis, the government offices, the English cathedral, and the Court House are situated. The Esplanade is a beautiful piece of ground, situated between D'Auteuil-street and the ramparts. Tlie Citadel, on Cape Diamond, is one of the most interesting objects to visitors ; and those who are desirous of seeing it should make application to the town major, at the main guard-house from whom tickets of aduiission can always be obtained by persons of respectability. Tlie area embraced within the fortifications of the citadel is more than forty acres. The line of fortifications, enclosing the citadel and the Upper Town, is nearly three miles in length, and the guns with which AXL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC OUEDE. 97 t^ey are mounted are mo«tIy thirty-two and fortj-eight poundern. Ihere are hve gateH to the city, three of which, Pre«cott, Pukce and Hope gates, communicate with the Lower Town, and two of which St. Louis and St. John's-gate, communicate with the suburbs of the same name. About three quarters of a mile from the city are four MarteUo Towers, fronting the Plains of Abraham and intended to impede the advance of an enemy from that direc' tion. The Roman Catholic Cathedral, which fronts upon the Upper Town market place, is a large and commodious building, but with no great pretensions te architecture. The interior is handsomely fatted up, and has several fine paintings by the old masters, which are well worthy of inspection. The church will seat 4,000 persons It has a good organ. >S'^ Patrick's Church, on St. Helen-street, Upper Town is a neat and comfortable building, and is capable of seating about 3 000 persons. ' StRocKs Church, on St. Joseph and Church-streets, in the St Roch s suburbs, is a large and commodious building, and will seat 4,000 persons. There are several good paintings in this church. ^ The Church of Notre Dame des Victoires, on Notre Dame-street 18 one of the oldest buildings in the city. It has no pretentions tc! architectural beauty, but is comfortably fitted up, and will seat over 2,000 persons. PROTESTANT CHURCHES, The English Cathedral is situated between Garden-street St Ann-street, and the Place d'Armes, Upper Town, and is a hand- some edifice, 135 by 75 feet, and will seat between 3 000 and 4 OOO persons. This church, which was f^vcoi^A m ^Q[^A x.L _i . ' and is neatly fitted up. '"^'^' ""^ ^^""^ "'^""' 98 ALL ROUND EO0TE AND PANORAMIC (JUID-E. lil \iV-f * I : ! . p:i; p M Trinity Church, situated' on St. Nicholas-street, Upper Towvf^ is a neat cut stone building, erecte i in 1824. It is 74 by 48 feet and the interior is handsomel/ fitted up. St. Peter's Chapel is situated on St, Vallier-street, St. Roch'Sj, and is a neat plain structure, which will seat about 500 persons. ' St. Paul's, or The Mariner's Chapel, is a small building near Diamond Harbor, designed principally for seamen. Si. Andrew's Church, in connection with the Church of Scot- fand, is situated on St. Ann-street, Upper Town. The interior i» well fitted upy and will seat over 1,200 persons, St. John's Free Scotch Church, is situated on St. Francis-street^ Upper Town. It is a neat plain structure, and will seat about 600 persons. Tlie Wesleyan Chapel, on St. . Stanislaus-street, is a handsome Gothic building, erected in 1850. The interior is well fitted up^ and it has a good organ. It will seat over 1,000 persons. The Wesleyan Centenary Chapel is situated on D'Artigny-street, and is a plain but substantial edifice. The Congregational Church, on Palace-street, Upper Town, is a I eat building of cut stone, erected in 1841, and will seat about 800 persons, Tlie Baptist CJiurcl, on St. Ann-street, Upper Town, is a neat stone building, and will seat over 400 persons. The other principal public buildings worthy of notice are : — TJie Hotel Dieu, hospital and church, which front on palace- street, Upper Town, and, connected with the cemetery and garden,, cover an area of about ten acres. The buildings are spacious and substantial, and the hospital has beds for about sixty sic£ persons. The General Hospital is situated on the river St, Charles, in the St. Eoch's ward. The hospital, convent, and church are a han(J- ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 99 some quadrangular pile of stone buildings, well adapted to the pur- pose for which they are designed. The UrsitUne Convent, situated on Garden-street, Upper Town was founded in 1641. A number of fine paintings are to be seen here, and application for admission should be made to the Lady Superior. The University of Qtiehec fronts on Hope-street and the market- place. Upper Town. The buildings, which are of massive grey stone, form three sides of a quadrangle, and have a fine garden in, the rear. The Court House and the City Hall are substantial stone buildings, situated on St. Louis-street, and well adapted to their respective purposes. The Gaol is situated at the corner of St. Ann and St. Stanislaus- streets, Upper Town, and is a massive stone building, and cost about £60,000. It is in a healthy location, and well adapted to the purpose for which it was designed. The Jesuit Barracks front on the Upper Town market-place and St. Ann-street. They have accommodations for about 1 000 men. \ The Marine Hospital, situated on the river St. Charles, in the St. Koch's ward, is intended for the use of sailors and emio-rants and is a beautiful stone building of four storeys. It was erected ata cost of £15,000, and will accommodate about 400 patients. The Lunatic Asylum is situated at Beauport, two and a-hal£ milAs from Quebec, and is an extensive building, enclosed in a park of about 200 acres. Tlie Quebec Music Hall is a handsome cut stone edifice, rp,npn% erected, situated on St. Louis-street, Upper Town. As the Seat of French Power in America until 1759, the great fortress of English Rule in British America, and the key of the St^ 100 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. Lawrence, Quebec must ever possess interest of no ordinary charac- ter for well informed tourists. Living is comparatively cheap, and Hotel accommodation equal to Montreal in every respect. The City and environs are rich in drives, in addition to being on the direct line of travel to the Saguenay, Murray Bay, Cacouna, Rimouski, Gaspd and other noted watering places. A City, crowning the summit of a lofty cape, must necessarily be difficult of access ; and when it is remembered how irregular is the plateau on which it stands, having yet for thoroughfares the identical Indian paths of Stadacona or the narrow avenues and approiiches of its first settlers in 1604, it would be vain to hope for regularity, breadth and beauty in streets, such as modern cities can glory in. It is yqt in its leading features a City of the 17th century — a quaint, curious, drowsy, but healthy location for human beings; a cheap place of abode; if you like a creiielitod fort with loop-holes, grim-looking old guns, sentries, pyramids of shot and shell ; Mich is the spectacle high up in the skies, in the airy locality called the Upper Town. Some hundred feet below it appears a crowded mart of commerce, with vast beaches, where rafts of timber innumerable rest in safety, a few feet from where a whole fleet of Great Easterns might float secure on the wntors of the famed river. The two main roads outside the City, the St. Foy and St. Louis-roads, are lined by the country se^ts of success- ful Quebec merchants, judges, professional men, retired English officers, &c., &c. ( )n his way from the St. Louis Hotel, St. Louis-street, the , tourist notices, a few steps to the west, the antiquated one-story house where Brigadier General Richard Montgomery was laid out after being found in his snowy shroud at Pres-de-Villc, 3l!^t' Dec- ember, 1775. After passing the Drill Shed, the Militiry Home, ,the Ladies' Protestant Home, facing St. Bridget's Home, and adjoining the area which the Quebec Seminary intend to lay out as a Botanical Garden, the Jehu, amidst most miraculous detiils of the great battle, soon lands his passenger on the Plains of Abraham close to the little monument which marks the spot where James Wolfe, the British hero, expired, near to the well from which water ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 101 i, was procured to moisten his parched lips. A few minutes more brings one to Mr. Price's Villa, Wolffield, where may be seen the rugged path up the St. Denis burn, by which the Highlanders and English soldiers gained a footing above, on the 13th September, 1759 ; — destined to revolutionize the new world — the British, guided by a French prisoner of war, brought with them from Eng- land (Denis de V^itrd, an. old Quebccer,) or possibly by Major Stobo, who had, in 1758, escaped from a French prison in Quebec and returned to his countrymen, the English, accompanyiirg Saun- ders' fleet to Quebec. The tourist next drives past Thornhill, Sir Francis Hinck's old home, when Premier to Lord Elgin. Opposite appears the leafy glades of Spencer Wood, so grateful a summer retreat that my lord used to say, " There he not only loved to live, but would like to rest his bones." Next comes Spencer Grange, then Woodfield, the beautiful homestead of the Hon. Wm. Sheppard in 184(1, and of the late J as. Gibb for many years after. The eye next dwells on the little rustic chapel of St. Michael, embowered in evergreens ; then villas iimumerable are seen, that is, if you enter bayond the secluded portils of Sous-ks-Bois—Benmore, Col. Rhodes' country seat, Clermont, Boauvoir, Kilmarnock, Cataraqui, Kelgraston, Kirk-Ella, Meadow Bank, &c., until after a nine miles' drive, Redclyffe closes the rural landscape, Iledclyffe is on the top of the cape of Cap Rouge, where m my indications yet mark the spot where Roberval's ephemeral colony wintered as far back as 1541. The visitor cm now return to the city by the same road, or select the St. Foy-road, skirting the classic heights where General Murray, six months after the first battle of the Plains, lost the second, on 28th April, 1760— the St. Foy Church was then occupied by the British soldiers. Next comes Holland's House, Mont- gomery's head quarters in 1775, behind which is '' Holland Tree," overshadowing, as of yore, the graves of the Hollands. The view of the meandering St. Charles below, especially during the high tides, is something to be remembered. The tourist shortly after detects the iron pillar, surmounted by a bronze statue of BeJ- lona, presented in 1855 by Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, intended to commemorate this fierce struggle. fq 102 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE, III close proximity appears the bright parterres or umbrageous groves of Bellevm, Hamwood, Bijou, Westfield and Sans Bruit, the dark gothic arches of Finlay Asylum, and the traveller n -enters by St John Suburbs, with the broad basin of the St. Charles and the pretty Island of Orleans staring him in the face. Drive down next to see Montmorency Falls, and the little room which the Duke of Kent, Queen Victoria's father, occupied in 1791. A trip to the Island of Orleans in the ferry will also repay the trouble ; it costs ve.y little; half an hour of brisk steaming will do it, cross then to St Joseph, Levi, per fevry steamer, and go and behold the most complete, the most formidable, as to plan the most modern, e;jf thworks in the world. Drive to Lake Beauport, to luxuriate on its red trout; but mind you stop on your return and take a • caulker of Glenlivet or old Bourbon or Sillery Mousseux on the banks of the trout stream, next to the Hermitage, at Charlesbourg. Step into the Chateau ; sit down, like Volney amidst the ruins of Palmyra, and meditate on the romantic though unhappy fate of dark-eyed Caroline, Bigot's Eosemond*, some hundred years ago. You imagine you have seen everything; not so, my friend! tell your driver to let you out opposite Ringfield, on the Charlesbourg road, and if at home Mr. G. H. Parke, the obliging proprietor, will surely grant you leave to visit the extensive earthworks behind his residence, raised by Montcalm in 1759— so apppropriately called Ringfield ; hurry back to town in time to accept that invi- tation to dine at the club, then spend the evening agreeably at the Morrin College, in the cosy rooms of the literary and Historical Society, and retire early, preparing yourself for the great campaign of the morrow. TO THE LAKES ! TO THE LAKES.' Here are a few of them : LaJce Cahaire, at St. Augustin ; Lake • You will peruse Caroline's pathetic tale in that repository of Canadian lore, Maple Leaves, which you will find a tri. ty guide for objects without tiie City, whilst Hawkins' Historical Picture of Quebec, will, in lanjjuage most classic, enlighten you as to what Quebec contains or did contain within its old walla. " AS.L ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDlfi. 103 s^t. Joseph, Lac t la Truite, Lake Philippe, Lake Jaune, Smw Lake, Lac Blanc, Lac Sudrouest, Lac Vincent, Lac Thomas, Lac 'Claire, Lac McKenzie, Lake Sagamite, Lake Bums, Lake Bon- net — all withifi a few hours drive from Quebec, with the exception •of Snow Lake. It is not uncommon to eateh trout weighing from 12 Iba. to 20 Iba. in Lake St, Joseph and Snow Lake during the winter months. We feel sure our reader, whatever his pretensions may be as a traveller, will be delighted with the ancient City of Quebec, and have a satisfactory feeling of pleasure within himself for having in- icluded it m the catalogue of places he has put down as worthy of a visit in his tour through Canada. The scenery outside the City, and all along the river on both shores, is exceedingly picturesque, every yard bringing a new and varied landscape into view, calcu- lated to please the imagination, delight the eye, and satisfy the most fastidious in natural beauty,. We find the following in Buckingham's Canada : " The situation of Quebec is highly advantageous in a commercial as well as military point of view; and its appearance is very imposing ^'from whatever quarter it is first approached. Though at a ■'■' distance of 400 miles from the sea the magnificent river on ^' which it is seated is three miles in breadth a little below the ''town, and narrows into about a mile in breadth immediately -" abreast of the citadel, having in both these parts sufficient depth " of water for the largest ships in the world — a rise and fall of *' twenty feet in its tides — and space enough in its capacious basin, between Cape Diamond on the one hand, and the Isle of OrleanB 'on the other, to afford room and anchorage for a thousand sail of vessels at a time, sheltered from all winds, and perfectly j.i ^< .(( i( •:h ji secure. •>5 THE FALLS OF MONTMORENCL In taking our departure from Quebec, and on our way down the river, we pass this celebrated cascade. These falls, which are ssituated in a beautiful nook of the river, are higher than those of '•^^^I'l'mmmmimamimt iniini umiiiii mmt T04 ALL ftODND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. o !E o O OS ALL HOUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 105 Niagara, being more than two hundred and fi% feet ; but thoy are very narrow— being only dome fifty feet wide. This phioe is a very celebrated focus of winter amuHements. During the frost, the spray from the falls accumulates to such an extiint as to form a cone of some eighty feet high. There is also a second cone of inferior altitude, cidled the '' Ladies' Cone," and it is this of which visitors make the most use, as being less dangerous than the higher one. They carry " toboggins,"— long, thin pieces of wood,-^'md having arrived at the summit, place themselves on these and slide down with immense velocity. Ladies and gentlemen both enter with equal spirit into this amusement. It requires much skill to avoid accidents, and sometimes people do tumble head over heels to the bottom. Visitors generally drive to this spot in slei-hs, taking their wine and provisions with them; and upon the pure white cloth which nature has spread out for them, they partake of their dainty repast, and enjoy a most agreeable pic-nic. One does not feel in the least cold, as the exercise so thoroughly warms and invigorates the system. There are men and boys in atten- dance for the purpose of bringing down strangers who may desire to venture down the icy mountain, and to those who enjoy this kind of pleasure, it is great sport. The drive to the Falls is very beautiful ; the scenery on the road through Beauport, where the Provincial Lunatic Asylum is built, and back again being full of interest. The distance of these falls from Quebec is eight miles. About two miles above the Falls is a curious formation on the river bank, called '' the Natural Steps," being a series of layers of the limestone rock, each about a foot in thickness, and for about half-a-mile receding one above the other, to the height of nearly 20 feet, as regularly as if formed by the hand of man. They are a great object of wonder and curiosity, and, being so near the Falls, should certainly be included in the visit. THE CHATJBIEKE FALLS, on the river Chaud' re, nine miles below Quebec, are also a favor- ite resort, and are very beautiful and romantic. The river here m a f 106 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. is about four hundred feet wide, and the height of the falls is one hundred and thirty feet. THE LOWER ST. LAWRENCE RIVER. Leaving Quebec, we advise the tourist to at once make his arraiigoments for visiting that very popular resort, the Saguenay. For the past few years, thousands of Canadians and Americans have wended their way to this famous river, and the result of their experience has been to make it still more popular. None who have been have resolved otherwise than to repeat the trip the first time they could possibly do so, and to those who have not enjoyed this most lovely of all excursions, we would say, in the language of Shakspeare, " stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once." All information concerning the means of transit can be ascertained at the hotel to which we took our compagnons de voyage ; but in case they may neglect to attend to the important duty of seeking such requisite knowledge, we would say that during the season two steamers run between Quebec and the Saguenay. Both these boats belong to the Canadian Navigation Company, whose steamers ply between Hamilton, Toronto and Montreal. They are elegantly fitted up for the comfort of passengers, and furnished with every convenience ; indeed, there is nothing wanting to render the journey down the river what it always is, most delightful. Once on board and off, we find ourselves steaming away down stream at a good speed, and to turn our thoughts away from the city we have just left, we come in sight of . THE ISLAND OF ORLEANS, situated in the river St. Lawrence, immediately below Quebec, nineteen miles long by five and a half miles wide, and, like the Island of Montreal, superior in fertility to the main land adjacent to it. Its present population is about 6,000. I ALL ROUND ROUTB AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 107 THE FALLS OF ST. ANNE are situated on the river of the same name, on the north side of the St. Lawrence, twenty-four miles below Quebec, and present a variety of wild and beautiful scenery, both in themselves and their immediate neighborhood. LAKE ST. CHARLES, thirteen miles north of Quebec, is a favorite resort for tourists particularly for those who are fond of angling, as the lake abounds in nne trout. I GROSSE ISLE is situated thirty miles below Quebec. Here is the Quarantine fetation,— a sorrowful place everywhere j but there is an unusually melancholy interest attached to this one, from the fact that no less than SIX thousand Irish emigrants were buried in one grave during the terrible year of famine in Ireland. Apart from these sad- dening recollections, the island is a fair and agreeable spot, and itfi scenery is very beautiful. Below this island the river becomes wider and wider, and we soon almost lose sight of land altogether. y MALBAIE, 90 miles below Quebec, is the first stopping place for the steamer after leaving Quebec, and where many may desire to go ashore and spend a day or two before going further. Murray Bay (Malbaie) 18 a great resort in the summer months, and many Canadian families spend the entire season in this healthy retreat. Every one must enjoy a few days passed at this fashmn^Kla «.o^.^.,^ place. Leaving it and steaming across the river, which is about 20 miles wide at thia point, we strike Riviere du Loup, situated on the south shore. Here those desirous of visiting the far-famed 108 ALL ROUND ROUTE AN'D PANORAMIC GUIDE. watering-placo of Cacouiia, can, after an exceedinu'Iy pleasant drive throu'^h the country of abo c 8 miles, find theniHclves in a fashionable i)lace, containing womo very good buildings. Tiie " St. Lawrence Hall," where we advise the visitor to make for, is a large house, reploto with every modern convenience and comfort j every accommodation to bo obtained at any of our first city hotels can be found there, together with a good Billiard Room, Bowling Alley, and hot and cold baths ; sea-bathing is provided for in con- nection with the hotel, and sailing boats are kept ready for the U-x CACOUNA BAY. use of visitors desirous of going out on the river on fishing and shooting excursions. A week spent with " mine host" at ine St. Lawrence will always be looked back to with pleasure. Leaving the wharf at Riviere du Loup, our steamer points her course again to the opposite shore, and in less than two hours we find ourselves at Tadousac, which is at the mouth of the Elver Saguenay. This is a very pleasant spot, and, if no more time can be spared than the brief stay of the steamboat at the wharf, let us XPi 's m? if 111 CHISHOLM'S ALL \^\\K\<\K\\l \ ! I IHl 7 v5 u; MAP QIFTHI LOUR S^ LAWRENCE Aii» SAffiiEi&f 1111 it. E-u^raved foi" CHISHOLM'S ALL ROUND ROUTE & PANORAMIC GUIDE BC^LB ^«sai MILK CHI O ITJ C^A RL f * ( :-j^^jaftH:'T w a war TiaHMB«g!er--ii •w«-»»'-"--w"l'"' • i^ •V' i: "tm ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 109 advise the tourist to immediately go ashore. There is a fine hotel here which is excellently kept, and in connection with it are all kinds of sports for the amusement of visitors. The bathing at this place is also very superior. It is a post of the Hudson's Bay Company, who have a considerable establishment here. TADOUSAC. Getting aboard again, the whistle is sounded, and we are under steam, and are really now entering the justly-renowned River Saguenay, and commence, as if by instinct to .^tr.iin our eyes and open our mouths, to fea?t on and swallow all the magnificent natural grandeur that bursts upon us. THE SAGUENAY RIVER. The Saguenay is the largest tributary of the great St. Lawrence, and unquestionably one of the most remarkable rivers on the Con- tinent. It is the principal outlet of Lake St. John, which is its i.ii 110 ATL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. head-water : a lake about forty miles long, surrounded by a hea- vily timbored and level country ; its waters are remarkably clear, and abound in a great variety of fine fish. Eleven large rivers fall into it, yet it has only this one outlet; into the lake there is a remarkable curtain fall of two hundred and thirty-six feet, so con- spicuous as to be seen at forty or fifty miles distant, the Indian name for which is "Oueat Chouan" or " Do you see a fall there?" The Lake lies about 150 miles north-east of the St. Lawrence, and nearly due north of Quebec. The original name of the Sague' na,y was Chicoutimi, signifying "Deep water;" but the early Jesuit missionaries gave it the name it now bears, said to be a corruption of St. Jean Nez. The scenery is wild and romantic in the highest degree. The first half of its course averages half a mile in width and runs through an almost untrodden wilderness; it abounds in falls and rapids, and is 9nly navigable for the Indian canoe. A few miles below the southern fall in the river is the village of Chi- coutimi, at the junction of a river of the same name, which is the outlet of a long lake named Kenokami, with the Saguenay. Here is a range of rapids which extend ten miles. The Indians say there is a subterranean fall above the foot of the rapids, which they call " Manitou," or the " Great Spirit." To avoid these falls there is a carrying place called " Le Grande Portage." An exten- sive lumber business is transacted here; the village has an ancient appearance, and contains about five hundred inhabitants. The only curiosity is a rude Catholic Church, said to have been one of the earliest founded by the Jesuits. It occupies the centre of a grassy lawn, surrounded by shrubbery, backed by a cluster of wood-crowned hills, and commands a fine prospect, not only of the Saguenay, but also of the spacious bay formed by the confluence of the two rivers. In the belfry of this venerable church hangs a clear-toned bell, with an inscription upon it which has never yet been translated or expounded. From ten to twelve miles sout' " Chicoutimi, a beautiful expanse of water, called Grand or Ha! Hal Bay, recedes from the SnO-llftnilV fo ^Ir^ rlicfonnp rv^ c o p: 03 hunter, having followed a Moose to the brow of the cliff after the deer had made a fatal spring far down into the deep water, is said to have lost his foothold and perished with his prey. We also learn from " LeMoine's Oiseaux du Canada," that two or three years ago two fine specimens of the bird of Washington, that rare eagle, were It, tid 3r- pe an le id •n re ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 113 shot hero; and indeed continually the flioht of tjie bald-headed eagles along the summits of these beetling cliffs-tlie salmon leapinjf after its insect prey-or the seals bobbing their heads out of the water attract the sportsman's eye. Nothing can surpass the magnificent salmon fishin- of the Mar guenfce and other streams, tributaries to the Sauucnay, and full particuhtrs uith regard to these matters can be obtained at the hotel before leaving Qu<^bcc. VM'K KTliUNlTY— RIVKB SAGUJiXAY. Before taking our departure from what must certainly be classed as one of the most lovely and i.icture.^ue spots in North America, we would pause to ask the tourist, whether his expect't tions h.-tvc not been fully realized in every respect, and even fnr exceeded We fed satisfied ar. affirn.ative answer is the only one that can bo given to such a question, for there can be no two opm- n 114 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. ions as to the magnificence of the scenery brought before the vision on a trip up the River Saguenay to Ha ! Ha ! Bay. Long descriptions of such scenery can convey but little to the reader and must be at the best very inadequate. The trip must be taken before the gran- deur of the Saguenay is to any extent understood and a})prcciated. Leaving Tadousac then, on thereturn journey, the steamer again makes its way across the St. Lawrence to Riviere du Loup, for the convenience of Cacouna passengers, and those desirous, by so arrang- ing it, can here go ashore, and take the train by the G And Trunk Railway to Quebec. Having sailed down the river, this will prove an interesting change, and bring them into Quebec much earlier. Those remaining on the boat will, if a fine day, enjoy the sail, calling at Murray Bay (Malbaie), as on the downward trip, and afterwards making straight for Quebec. Those tourists taking the traiu at Riviere du Loup can make connection at Point Levi, which is opposite Quebec, with trains for the White Mount-iins, the next place at which we purpose stopping with them. Those who still keep to the boat, on arrival at Quebec, will probably prefer lying over a day for rest before proceeding on their journey. From Point Levi there is not much to be seen, and we there- fore advise our traveller as soon as possible after getting on the train, to get a sleeping berth have a good night's rest, and be in good trim on reaching the White Mount lins. At Richmond Station, which is the junction with the main line of the Grand Trunk Railway, our tourist can have a comfortable meal at the Station and then change c irs, getting on board the train from Montreal, which also has a sleeping car attached to it, the train he has travelled by from Que- bec being the mail train for Montreal. THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. A few hours after this he will find himself, after a very pretty ride through a mountainous country, at Gorham, and, on landing, will be almost within arm's length of the door of the " Alpine House," where he will do well to get himself ensconced as quickly ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 1' j 5 ..J'lllln',.,' .W maw' 116 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PAN'ORAMICT GUTDE. 08 possible. From tliis houHc. places of interest iiU about the iiioun- tains nre witliin easy distance, and carriages and saddle-horses in great numbers are kept on hand for visiting- the various beautiful spots in and around Gorham. There are numerous drives, which are all exceedingly pretty, and indeed the White Mountains are destined to become one of the most fashionable resorts on this con.- tinent, '^ The White Mountains, or the Switzerland of America, are ''situated in Coos County, New Hampshire, and consist of a 'number of mountain peaks, from four to six thousand feet in* •'altitude, the highest of them being Mount tVashingtou, which i» '• six thousand two hundred and forty-three feet above the level of " the sea, and possesses the greatest attraction to tourists. Its •* ascent 'has lately become quite fashionable with visitors to the "mountains. It is perhaps impossible to find anything grander ''in mountain scenery than the White Mountains of New Ilamp- " shire. From the 'Alpine House' visitors can proceed by car- " riages eight miles to the ' Glen House,' which is at the base of *' Mount Washington, and tliere take saddle-horses for the at^cent, ''The 'Notch' is a narrow gorge -between two enormous cliffs "and extends for a distance of two miles. Its entrance is nearly . ■'twenty feet wide, and the mountain scenery, diversified by beau- '' tiful cascades falling over perpendicular rocks, is grant! in the "extreme. . The ' Willey House' stands in this notch, at an ele- " vation of two thousand feet. It is pointed out to the travelle.- as the residence of the Willey family, who perished by an avalanche. from the mountain thirty years ago. In Franconia Notch may be " seen the ' Basin' and ' Flume,' objects of great interest. The Flume " is a stream of water having a fall cf two hundred and fifty feet " over fearful precipices into a natural cavit'^ in the rocks which forms "the basin. The ' Old Man of the Mountain,' or profile mountain, " is a singularly interesting natural object. It obtains its name " from the striking resembhince it bears to the profile of the human " counten.mce, every feature being marked with the greatest " accuracy." Two groups of Mountains are -included under the general title a ALL ROUND IIOUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 117 Whi e Mou.tam profK.,-,- tho other, the Fn.nconia llan^e, <.f which Mount Lalayotto, u thousand feet lower than .Mount 'VV uHhingtou, 18 the lii^hest summit. i'; Piiiiiili!,, '«ir' ^^ We extract the following from " The White Hills," (by T ;5tarr King), a really excellent book : " There are three paths for the ascent of Mount Washin-^ton — 'One from the Crawford House at the Notch, one from the White I Its ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDB. MduntJiin House, five miles beyond the Notch, and one from the (jlen. The p;ith from tlie White Mountain House requires the shortcut horsobiick ride. Parties are carried by wagjjjons up the fide of Mount Washington to a point less tlian three miles from the summit. The bridle-path, however, is quite steep, and no time, is gained by tliis ascent. The rival routes arc those from the Notcb and the Glen. Each of these has some decided advantages over the other. The Glen route is the shortest. For the first four miles the horses keep the wide and hard track, with a regular ascent of one foot in eight, which w;.s laid out for a carriage road to the summit, but never completed. This ia a great gain over the- corduroy and mud, through the forests of Mount Clinton, which belong to the ascent from the Notch. When we rise up ' into the region where the real mountain sceneiy opens, the views from tlie two paths are entirely different in character, and it is difficult to decide which is grander. From, the Notch, as soon as we ride out of the forest, we are on a moun-^ tain top. We have scaled Mount Clinton, which is 4,200 feet high. Then the path follows the line of the White Mountain ridge.. We dos-cend a little, and ,-oon mount the beautiful dome of Mount Pli; sant, which ia five hundred foet higher,. Descending this to- the narrow line of the ridge again, we come to Mount Franklin, a little more than a hundred feet higher than Pleasant, less marked in the landscape, but very difficult to climb. Beyond this, five- hundred feet higher still, are the double peaks of Mount Monroe ,, and then windini? down to the Lake of the Clouds, from whence the Ammonoosuc issues, we stand before the cone of Mount Washington, which sprijigs more than a thouf^and feet above us.. The views of the ravines all along this route, as we pass over the sharpest portions of the ridge, and see them sweeping off each way from the path, are very exciting.. And there is the great advan- tage in this approach to be noted, that if Mount Washington is. «l^..rl^/l n..fl +-lirk nth'^^' aniiiiviifa ti vn n\aav frnirollprH An not. InSP. tnA v;iuuvicvt, aiitt tli-- tJIiIv t i---ti5iiii <•■,'•»«-'•-••.<-• -, ■....•^•.. — — sensations and the effects produced by standing for the first time 9n a mountain peak. By tJie Glen route we cross no subordinate peaks, and do. noL the ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAxMIO QUIDB. 119 follow a ridge lino from wliich we see summits towering here jind there, but steadily ascend Mount Washington itself. In this way a more adeciuj.te conception is gained of its immense mass and majestic architecture. After we pjiss above the line of the carriage § K s 9 K o a t im t road, to the barren portion of the mountain, there are grand pictures at the south and ensf, nf tliw A n) o a O 'A ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 121 Travellers should arrange their plans so as to spend a portion of their time at any rate on the mountains, wliich they can accomplish by taking up their quarters at the " Glen House." This fine hotel, Well known to tourists, has all the comforts of the first-class city houses, and being beautifully and conveniently situated, is a most desirable residence for all who intend " doing " the mountains. Stages are in waiting at every train, for the accommodation of passengers who intend staying at the " Glen " House. Leaving the White Moui^tains with all their varied .'ittractions we take our seat in the train at Gorham Station for Portland, and find ourselves wdiizzing along through a magnificent mountainous country, which probably excels anything of its kind in America, and we would recom^nend a good look out being kept during the journey, for the S' .i-y cannot fail to please. On arrival at South Paris, those desir ..s have time to obtain refreshments, and those who are accustomed to travel know tha.t it is just as well to take good care of the inner-man, so as to be securely fortified against the fatigue that always, more or less, attends long journeys. PORTLAND. r After leaving South Paris, nothing of note is seen until a short dist:uice ofi" Portland, when we come in sight of the Atlantic, and feel that sense of pleasure which is experienced on getting near home after a long absence. Arrived at Portland, the principal city of Maine, our tourist Avill feel that, if not virtually at homo, he is at least in its neighborhood, and among friends. To those who have never been in Portland, and can spare the necessary time, we would say, spend a day or two ther^ by all moans. It is one of the most pleisant and agreeable cities in the Eastern States, with wide streets and avenues nicely kept, well meriting its title, " The Forest City." Cape Elizabeth is a A^ery favorite resort, and being but a few miles out of the city, an afternoon cannot be better passed than by taking a drive out there. Excursions can also be Tn,'ldf> t'^ <"lie " Cinnnn TT/->no« " ^nA 1, n 1 - j 1. _/• — i... ^..\. , ,,,_„.i iiVLicv uilu. wiCHuxu jjuauil, uutll ol Mi fl! If ill 122 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. which are exceedingly pleasant. Then there are the 365 Ishmds including " Cushings," most of which can be reached by ferry-boat or yacht, and where there are always to be found a great many visitors seeking health and relaxation from business. At several of these Islands first-class hotels are to be found, and every comfort can be obtained. In Portland, "the Falmouth Hotel," kept by Mr. P. E. Wheeler, is an exceedingly fine house and very handsomely fur- nished. . From Portland, two or three difi-erent routes can be chosen, according to the time and inclination of the traveller. If desiring to get to New York direct, and preferring a sea passage, steamers ply regularly, and in fine weather this will be found an exceedingly pleasant trip. We, shall, however, presume 'that the majority travelling intend to go via Boston, and, if possible, rest a while in that fine city, rather than hurry on at railroad speed, which cannot but prove tiresome. Therefore, to such there is the choice of land or water carriage. Steamers, elegantly furnished, of thorough sea-going qualities, leave Portland every evening for Boston, the passage occupying about ten hours, and, if adopting this mode of conveyance, passengers are landed after a complete night's rest, free from the weariness attending a journey by railway. Those prefer- ring the road, can take the train in the morning, afternoon or evening, there being three trains daily, occupying five hours on the journey. BOSTON. Arriving in Boston, we have again got back into the midst of business and excitement, and we see more life than we have wit- nessed since we sallied forth in our wanderings from New York. Our traveller will doubtless desire to get comfortably quartered during his sojourn here, if only for a brief period, and to do this he has only need to make his way to any of the first-class hotels, given in our advertising columns, where every comfort and luxury is to bo met with. There are many things to be visited in and around Boston, but as doubtless our reader will be well acquainted i ALL ROUND ROOTB AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 123 I I I with the city and its surroundings, it is needless to recount all the various places of interest which have been so frequently and lucidly described ; albeit we cannot pass hence without advising ajl those who have never visited Mount Auburn, to do so ere they return home. The Cemetery is indeed a lovely spot, and a few hours is delightfully spent in walking or driving through its beautiful grounds. Here is seen the handiwork too of many a fond heart towards their departed loved ones, and the taste displayed gene- rally has tended to make the place very chr.rming. Harvard University, which is situated at Cambridge, about four miles from Boston, should also be visited. It is here that Longfellow lives, among other American celebrities who have settled down within the shade of their former " Alma Mater." The large organ, in the Boston Music Hall, is visited by great numbers, and performances are given twice a week. If the tourist should be fortunate enough to be in Boston on either day this takes place, he will do well to make a point of attending and enjoying what is a rare treat to all lovers of good music. Information can be obtained at the hotels as to the days and time, and tickets for admission can also be pro- cured. Leaving Boston, we will now make our way homewards to New York, and deposit the tourist at the place from which we started with him, and in doing this we will again leave him to his choice of routes, as there are several. He can if he wishes a fine trip without running any risk of sea sickness, take the Stonington line of Steamers. Or he can have the more open journey by taking the train to Newport, and thence by one of the steamers of the Naragansett line running from that place. These are lovely trips and the boats of both lines are elegant and comfortable in all their appointments, and in tea to twelve hours he will be landed safely in the great city — NEW YORK. Here we are again at New York. But before losing ourselves among its 1,500,000 inhabitants we raise our hat to the departing iUUUCl" WiUU til o r>leaSiinfc I 124 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. one. "On different senses, different objects strike;" but we think there has been something of a sort to please all. Men of every pursuit, and of every variety of taste, will have been able to indulge, each in his peculiat hobby; for although the extent of ground traversed may not seem so large as otherwise might aj.pear from the similarity of rjice everywhere encountered, yet^ from the free expression given to thought, and the amount of enterprise, social and individual, everywhere met with, there is perhaps not ii better field open for examining the woi-king merits of the ditlbrent schemes which have been from time to time proposed, as affording solutions of the important questions of national education, woit men's associations, co-operative labor, &c., &c. To the political economist there has been, therefore, abundant subject for fruitful s|;udy; and the prospects of an ever-increasing wealth, hitely opened by the discovery of rich mineral veins in territory hitherto regarded as unproductive, will afford the theorist grounds on which to work, in conducting his speculations on the great future reserved for this coniinent. To the geologist, no tract of country could well be found more replete with interest than that we have traversed. He h^is been brought face to face with nature in her sublimest aspect^ , he has been admitted, as it were, to view tlie arcruia of her great work- shop, and the vast cutting scooped out by the degrading i'orce exerted through successive ages on a limestone form;itI(.u by a stupendous power like Niagara, to the tiny "stria}" or ice grooves, that to this day mark with unerring line, the course of the Northern g^ iciers, as in ages still more remote they ground down over the greater portion of tlie North American area. ' The artist and sportsman have also no reason U^ com])lain of tlie bill of fare offered for their especial enjoyment. The' former could hardly study in a better school than that he has just left— a school that has produced more than one conscientious interpreter of its own peculiar ''genre ;" and of late years none more entitled to our hearty approval than M. Jacobi. And the latter will on his journey round have been able to inspect, in the larger cities, the spoils of many a game bag and fishing basket. ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 125 ig The student of life and character wall have occasion to notice many novelties ; and the strange mixture of the two langu.iges ip Canada, by the ^' hahitants," as they are called, will astonish his ideas of euphony. His pure French, if such, perchance, he can conmiand, will not unfrequently prove "caviare'' to these swarthy folks ; but, ix;rhaps, nothing will have more effect on him than the first sight obtained of the red-man, such as he nppears in the streets of our cities in this the 19th century. "Oquantum mvta- tus ah iflo" he will exclaim — from that romantic-looking creature clothed in a scanty allowance of " fig-leaf," who us'ed to be served up for the delectation of our infmtile minds in the pages of Old Peter Parley — when he sees the Indian Chief of his ooyhood, so strangely modified by the Darwinian system of Natural Selection, into a smooth-faced, oily-haired individual, clad in paper collar, Eureka shirt, ai. '' extensive wide-awake. The pages of this edition of the Guide will doubtless like previous ones cont:un many faults ; and alterations iu the times of starting' and arrival of trains and boats will naturally continue -to be made, irrespective of us ; without therefore holding ourselves responsible for any such errors, we will promise to endeavor, in future editions, to make such alterations and corrections as are found necessary from time to time. Any information granted by those best able to afford it — the public — on the experto crede principle, will be most readily made use of and acknowledged ; and now once more let us greet all our friends with a hearty m 14 m FAREWELL. 126 ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDB, i«li! FROM MONTREAL TO NEW YORK DIRECT. In order to meet all classes of tourists, we have considered it advisable to say a few words in regard to the routes to New York out of Montreal. There are many who may doubtless desire, after making a short st;iy in Montreal, to return home direct, from lack of time or other causes, to visit the lower St, Lawrence, and, although our Guide proper accompanies the through travellers, a few hints and recommendations to those giving up the tour at Montreal may not c iie amiss. Two routes lie at the choice of passengers, one an " all rail," and the other rail and w.;itf>r combined. During the summer sea- son the train by the all rail route, via the Vermont Central Rail- road, leaves the depot at Montreal at 4.30 p.m., reaching New York about noon the following day. Passengers may travel via Troy or Springfield, according as they may elect to take their passages. The other route referred to is via Rouse's Point and Lake Champlain. This is a very favorite way of going to New York, and is so well known and appreciated that little requires to be said in recommendation of it. During the pleasure season trains leave the depot, Montreal, for Rouse's Point, connecting at that place with the very fine boats of the Champlain Transportation Com- pany for Burlington and Whitehall, calling at Plattsburg, at either of which places passengers can again t:ike the train. Those leav- ing Montreal by the evening train will find it a very pleasant break in the journey to remain over night at Fouquet's Hotel, Platts- burg, and take the boat the following day. It is a pretty place, and numbers can testify to the fact that a short time occupied at Plattsburg is well and satisfactorily spent. It is also the "ren- dezvous" for pleasure parties visiting the " Adirondj'cks," ''Lake George," &c., which are lovely spots and should be seen by all who are lovers of scenery both wild and beautiful. We shall xiot, how- ever, dwell upon these points of interest, as there are very full and ALL ROUND ROUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDE. 127 comprehensive guides specially written in regard to these localities, and which are to be readily obtained from the news agents on the trains and steamers. For complete information as to the starting of trains and boats, we would advise tourists to take care and secure a copy of the International Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, and as the departures may be altered during the season, it is impossible we can hold ourselves responsible for the continued correctness of the times given by us. They will, however, be as accurate as is possible with such details. ^ i DETROIT AND CHICAGO. As in all likelihood many of our tourists, who have never visited the large Western cities, may desire, whilst at Niagara, to take a run — even if only for a brief period — to the principal business localities in the Western States, we have thought it desirable, and as a matter of convenience to the travelling public, to refer in a very few words to one or two places in the Western States of America, which are not only worthy, and will amply compensate for any time spent in visiting them, but which really ought to be seen, and well seen, by all those who consider them- selves travellers. It is needless to say that we refer to the fine cities of DETROIT, in the State of Michigan, and CHICAGO, in the State of Illinois. A few hours' ride from Suspension Bridge through a pleasant country, over the Great Western Rail- way, will bring the tourist to the town of Windsor, in Canada and a few minutes more occupied in crossing the river by the Steam Ferry, will land him in the fine City of Detroit. This city like most of those in the West, has its principal streets runninf^ at right angles, and strangers are at no loss to find their way about. It contains some exceedingly fine buildings, parks and streets. As regards hotel accommodation, we can recommend the "Russell" House on Woodward Avenue, as a first-chiss hotel, or the '' Riddle" House, on Jefi'erson Avenue, both containing all the modern im- ^* 128 Ahh ROUNJ^/iipUTE AND PANORAMIC GUIDB. provomcnts, with every comfort required by the most fustidious. We would advise a visit to the pretty cemetery, and the outskirts of the city, which in all directionw are very fine, and will well repay a drive, or a long " Constituttfjnal." i «(.J'i'4 The next and other \)\nco r^hkh. we wish the Tourist to 'visit,' ia the " New York" of the West, CHICAGO. Probably moHt' of our pleasure seekers m:',y have already vinitod the lion city of the West ; but to those who have not made the journey witliin the last few years, we would say, by all means extend your absence from homo, ilml postpone your journey eastward, for at least a few days, and jjjo and see the inirch of proirress boinLC inade by our Western friends. Take the Miclii, X i / ifA ./ •I ^wL. CANADIAN NAVIGATION CO. & GRAND TRUNK R'Y. TOURIST TICKETS. Rates of Fare from Niagara Palls. SEASON 1871. 13 n 12 15 16 17 29 8i DESTINATION. Alptne House.) GORHAM...: j Do, BOSTON 49 60 2 6 19 20 21 22 24 26 26 27 86 87 42 Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do, Do. CRAWFORD ( HOUSE! I Do I KINGSTON MONTR GAI^ NEir YORK... Do. Do. Do. Do; Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. ■I ROUTE. Via Montreal, Quebec and G. T. K " Montreal and tt. T, R. direct " Montreal, Quebec, Gorham and Portland 1 " Montreal, St. Johns, Vermont Central j and Rutland & Burlington R. R " Montreal, Gorham and Portland " Montreal, St. Johns and Vermont Central. . " Ogdensburg, St. Albans and Vt. Central " Montreal, Rouse's Point, Lake Cham- ) plain to Whitehall. Saratoga, Rutland, Bellows, Falls and Fitchburg " Montreal, Rouse's Point, Lake Champlain, Lake George, Saratoga, People's Line of Steamers to New York, and Sound Steamers to Boston " Montreal, St. Johns, White River Juno-1 tion. Wells River, Littleton, Stages to and from Profile House and Crawlbrd [ House, and Rail via Concord, Nashua and Lowell to Boston | " Montreal, Rouse's Point, Lake Cham-) plain, Burlington, Bellows' Falls and( Fitchburg j " Ogdensburg, Rouse's Point, Lake Cham- ' plain, Burlington, Bellows' Falls and Fitchburg " Montreal, St. Johns, White River Jiinc^ tion. Wells River and Littleton " Ogdensburg, St. Albans, White River J Junction, Wells River and Littleton... . j " Rail or Steamer " Rail or Steamer. "Montreal, Rouse's Point, Lake Cham- V plam. Lake George, Sar. & Hudson R.R 1 Montreal, Rouse's Point, Lake Cham- plain, Lake George, Saratoga & People's Line of Steamers " *^,*i?v?real. Rouse's Pt.. Lake Champlkin, .. .Whitehall, Saratoga and Hudson R. R Montreal, Rouse's Pt., Lake Champlain, ) Whitehall, Saratoga and People's Line 5 of Steamers ) " ^ontreal, Gorham, Portland and Boston- " Montreal, Quebec, Gorham, Portland and 1 Boston t " Montreal, Rouse's Pt., Lake Champlain, ) ,, TT • .G®"?"^?' Saratoga and Dav Steamers 1 ^,°^u.f*^,l' Rouse's Ft., Lake Champlain, ) Whitehall, Saratoga and Day Steamers/ ^.S^.^1^'^1', Quebec, Gorham, over the White Mountains to Littleton, then via Concord, Nashua and Boston Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Lakel Magor to Newport, Littleton, Stages to and fom Profile House and Crawford House, then via Concord, Nashua and Boston • Montreal, St. Johns, Buriington,Lakei Chanaplam, Whiehali, Saratoga undj Day line Steamers j 22.00 19.00 25.00 22.00 22.00 22*00 18.00 26.00 32.00 38k5 22.00 18.00 28.00 22.50 8.00 13.00 !U8.50 27.40 25.60 22.50 27.00 30.00 27.40 24.50 48.00 48.00 24.60 I II Rates of Pare from Niagara Falls.— Coutinueil c 3 48 44 45 46 51 5 4 10 14 40 48 7 8 18 23 28 62 33 54 55 41 56 DESTINATION. NE:1¥ YORK. Do. Do. Do. Do. OGDENSBUKG PUSISCOTT PORTI4AND..,. Do. Do. A Back to N. FAIiliS i>ROFIIiE; Hotjsi: Do QVISBEC ' Do. Sc Back to mon rREAii.. SARATOG.l.... •1 Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. TIOIVTRKAL to fftI€H.fIONO to ROUTE. Via Montreal, St. Johns, Burlington, Lake 1 (Jhaiiiplain, Lake George, Saratoga, [ and Day Liny Stearaora ) " Ggdenfiburg, St. Albana, Burlingtoa) Lake Cbainplain, Whiteuall, Saratoga { and Day Line Steamers ) " Ogdeiisburg, St. Albaus.Burlington, Lake] C'hami)lain, Lake George, Saratoga and { Day Lino Steamers ) " Montreal, St. Johns, Burlington, Bellows I FallB and Springfleld ) " Otrdensburg, St. Albans, White River 1 Junction and Springfield ) " Rail or Steamer .' " Rail or Steamer " Montreal , Quebec and Gorham " Montreal and Gorham Direct " Montreal and Gorham, and return by I G.T It ..} " Montreal, St Johns, W. R. Junction, I Wells River and Stage from Littleton.. ) " Ogdensburg. St. Albans, W. R. Junction, I Wells River and Stage from Littleton. ) " Rail or Steamei - " Rail or Steamer " Montreal, Rouse's Point, Lake Cham-) plain <\nd Lake George J " M!ontreal, Rouse's Point, Lake ChamO plain and Whitehall ) " Montreal, Gorham, Stages from Alpine | House to Glen House, Crawford House, { Profile House and Littleton, then Rail t to White River Junction and Burling- [ ton, and via Lake Champlain and Lake | George and Moreau Station to Saratoga 1 " Montreal, St. Johns, Burlington, Lake I Champlain and W^hitehall J " Montreal, St Johns, Burlington, Lake 1 Champlain, and Lake George j " Ogdensburg, St. Albans, Burlington, Lake I Champ ain and Whitehall ) " Ogdensburg, St, Albans, liurlington. Lake I Champlain and Lake George | ClUGBEC and Back via Rail or Steamer,, Q,VKaEC and Back via G T. R 37.40 20.50 23.40 23.00 19.00 10.00 10.00 23.00 20.00 20.00 23.00 19.00 15.50 18.00 23.50 20.05 46.75 20.65 23.50 16.65 19.50 5.00 3.00 For Through Tickets from New York via Niagara Palls, §9.45 must be added to the foregoing rates. The Coupons between Niagara Falls and Toronto. Toronto and Kingston, Kings- ton and I'lvscott, Prescott and Montreal, and Montreal and (^uebe •, are valid either by Boat or Rail, and they are likewise good ofther by the South Shore Express Line of Steamers from Charlotta or by the Royal Mail Line from Toronto. The tickets include Meals and State-Rooms on Lake Ontario and the River St. Lawrei co, as liar as Montreal, but between Montreal and (Quebec they are for pae- bage only. HENRY SHACKELL, General Passenger Agent, G. T. R. ALEX. MILLOY, Sec. & Geul. Agent, Canadian Navigation Co. Jlontreal, Mar, 1871. G ^ I M o a T 8( t( b < ADVERTISEMENTS. € ^ ' J. liifiiiff Z^)'^/^ d'flote, or a la Carte, a,5 desired. This Magnificent Hotel is elifribiy situpted, fronting the North side of w n^ r,^"m^''* ^^'^ ^° ^"^ immediate vicinity of the Academv of Music Wallack'8 Theatre. Rt.oth's Dramatic Temple, Fifth or Theatre AcadeS; of Design, Young- ^^v;,. . s ;tiristian Association, Grace and Calvary Churches and other places .>; at traction, andia particularly recommended to Touri^te' iravellers andIamui<;B who desire the quiet and refinemont of aa Hotel' select in its characcer, first-class in all its appointments, and easy of access to the best places of amusement, as well as to the business portion of the wl *V^^'^ ^ ?^^l,tR*?^^ ^% conducted in the most liberal manaer and on both the Taole d'Hdte and European systems, having an elegant Diuinff lioom and t ate separate to meet the requirementfl of its patrons Messrs. KEBNii. h WBAVEB, Proprietor i. ADVBRTISBMBNTS. i ' B p cj o o _Q M y - „ » 5" S3 o S5 oM i« If^.O a;l^« 8»oS,§«2g2 fee ji"-^ St; «"" O a V kl?; 03 O (t«> Sis &■»■ PHg,S -^ fl o go 5'S ^ ^ H+jfcojoca'cJM 2 §|-gil|||j- a B 0< on ADVERTISEMENTS. rf d I at a at I NARRAGANSETT STEAMSHIP GO. Nei^r Xo]pk to Boston, Via Newport and Fall River. THE MAGNIFICENT STEAMERS COMMANDKTl A. G. SIMMONS. AND Commander B. M. SIMMONS. 5 DAILY AT P.M. FROM Pier 30, North River, FOOT OF CHAMBERS STREET. ^'^^m^^V^'^'t.^-* ^""1® *.? Taunton, Middleboro, Plymouth, New Bedford Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket^ the South Slloref and po'ints on the ' Cape Cod Hallway. ^%Wi^mH f tttff ON BOARD EACH STEAMER EVERY EVENING By HALL'S Celebrated Boston Brass, String, and Beed Bands. For Tickets or State rooms, apply at 241 Broadway ; 529 Broadwar ouSe pfer?'"''^ ®*''''' Broadway, 6orner of i3rd Stree^ or at the S FBEIGHT RECEIVED UP TO 5 O'CLOCK P.M. M. B. SIMMONS, Managing Director. JAS. PISK, Jr., President. H. H. MANGAM, CHAS. B. KIMBALL, Gen. Freiglt Agent. Qen. Pawenger Agent. , iis u J uf i^Min lat a / ADVERTISEMENTS. ! I, Day Line Steam Boats. C. ViBBARD & Daniel Drew. JUNE 1st TO OCTOBER 15TH. Afford the BEST Mode of ENJOYING the UNSURPASSED Scencn of the Hudson. 15 Leaving NEW YORK from VESTRY STREET PIER, at 8.45 a.m., and 7,^t\\ Street at 9 a.m., landing at principal points, including' West' Point and Catskill, connecting by stages to the Catskill Mountain House. Leave Albany at 9 a.m., reaching New York at 6 p.m. Afternoon Boat for Newburgh, Po'Keepsie, and Rondout, land- ing at CozzENs, West Point, Cornwall, New Hamburgh and Milton. THE FAVORITE STEAMBOAT Will leave VESTRY STREET PIER, at 3^ o'clock p.m., RETURNING, Will leave RONDOUT at 5.30 a.m., arriving at NEW YORK at 1 1 a.m. ISAAC L. WELSH, Genera/ Ticket Agent, New York. ADVERTISEMENTS. IT. ;8ED ,R, at loints, to the p.m. , land- H and ).m., fORK Agent, ORK. isiii DETROIT. WITBECK & CHITTENDEN, Proprietors. THIS HOTEL has long been known to the travelling public, as one of the most popular public houses in the west. " In point of location it is superior to any Hotel in the City, being situated on the CAMPIUS MARTIUS, and opposite the new CITY HALL. During the last winter, the House has been thoroughly re- fitted and re-furnished with every regard to the comfort of guests, and will now accommodate SIX HUNDRED PERSONS. Its convenience for business men is everything that can desired, as it is in the immediate vicinity of the leading wholesale houses. Parties visiting the various MINERAL ol>RINGS in the State, will find the RUSSELL HOUSE very desirable head quarters, being only a few minutes' walk from all the R.R. DEPOTS. OMNIBUSES run to and from all the Trains and to tiie CLEVELAND and BUFFALO STEAMERS during the season. Elegant Baihing Rooms and a fine new Billiard Parlor in the House, as well as Telegraph office to all parts. Rooms en suite suitable for parties travelling cnfamill-. secured in advance by telegraphing the Proprietors. We respectfully solicit the patronage of the travelling public, confident of being able to please in the future as in the past. WITBISCK & CHITTENDEN, Proprietors. I ADVERTISEMENTS. OETRDIT ft MlLWayiSCE R. i. S3 LESS than other BOA DS to aU ^POINTS WEST md NORTHWEST! Cheapest and Quickest Route to Milwaukee, Lacrosse, Prairie du Chien and all Points on the Mississippi River. THE DISTANCE IS ONE IIUNDUED MILES SHOKTER. Leavlnj? Detroit by the Through Mail Train in the A. M., Owofso is nached in time tor dinner, whore a sumptuous meal is spn-ad. Grand Havoii is arrived at in the evening, whoro immediate connection is made every day, except Sunday, with Engelmann'8 line of splendid Steamers, the liAC liA BISIiliK or IRONSIDES, With the veteran Captains McBUIDE and IKOVVELL. The trip across Lake Michigan is delightful in the extreme, \ hile the cool air of* the water is refreshing and invigorating. There is I^^No Charge for State Rooms to First Class Passengers...^ PULLMAN'S PALACE SLEEPING CARS Are run on the Night Express Train from Detroit for Grand llavon. rassengers for Milwaukee by this Train may obtain a splendid day's Fishing and Boating at Grand Haven and cross the Lake in the cool of the evening; or if bound for Muskegon, Whitehall, Tentwater, Lexington or Manistee, can make close con- nections with the Boats " MESSENGER" or "BAllBEK," on arrival at Grand Haven in the morning. The Detroit & Milwaukee and the Flint & Tero Marquette Railroads are the NEAREST ROUTE TO SAGINAW, Etc. Cgp^THREE TRAINS between Saginaw and Detroit DAILY. Day Trains pro- vided with Elegant Ladies' and Smoking Cars. I'ullman's I'alace Sleeuinir Cars on Night Trains. ALFRED WHITE, THOS. BELL, General Passenger Agent, General Supt. Detroit. Detriot THE STANDARD iiiii€iii iiLiiiee TiiLE, The Best and only Reliable Tables Manufactured, ALSO, ALL ARTICLES PERTAINING TO THE TRADE, FOR BALE BY PHELAN & COLLENDER, m 738 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Agent for Canada : CHAS. B. CHADWICK, At the BILLIARD HALL, 207 ST. JAMES STREET MONTREIAL. Where there are sixteen tables, and where all goods of the above manufacture can be obtained. ADVERTISEMENTS. ST I and d in it in with Irof jrers gat for con- 'aud pro- i on riot :t 3ve J871 LAKE SUPERIOR LINE. W7J. ^Vew J^rrangr ' /; greatly reduced ^ates. THE Uy/OM Steamboat Company, JlSD THB Atlantic. Duluth and Pa cific Line. Will run daily, during the season of navigation, one of the SPI 'IID SrJEAMERS Meteor, India, Paxjific, R. G. Cobuni, Atlantic, Japan, Keweenaw, Arctic, China and St Paal, Between BUFFALO, ERIE, CLE^'ELAND, DETROIT, and all intermediate Lake Superior Ports to DULUTH, there connecting with the LAKE S.UPERIOR AND MISSISSIPPI R.R., For ST. PAUL, and all points in MINNESOTA, NORTHERN WISCONSIN and IOWA, and via tne * NORTHERN PACIFIC R.R. AND RED RIVER STEAMERS To FORT GARRY, Manitoba. One of the above-named Steamers will leave BUFFALO daily, except Fridays and Saturdays, at 3 P.M., ERIE, at 8 o'clock next morning, CLEVELAND at 12, Midnight, DETROIT, at 10 P.M. following night, and SARNIA, daily, except Mondays and Tuesdays, after arrival of Trains from the East, by GRAND TRUNK AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. These Steamers are mostly new and especially adapted to the Lake Superior Irade, and to the accommodation of Travellers and Tourists. During the months Ir.h'^l' J"'y ^"'^ August, Excursion Trips will be made via the NORTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR, visiting the Silver Mines, Fort William, the Gr. id Portage, and other points, making these Trips the most interesting on the American continent. In addition to the regular ROUND TRIP OF THE LAKES, EXCURSION TICKETS at GREATLY REDUCED RATES, will be sold at all principal Rail- road Offices to ST. PAUL VIA THIS ROUTE, returning by all Rail ; or via ^ l\'/i.^° ^^- ^^^^ ^"'^ DULUTH, and by LAKE to SARNIA, DETROIT, QT^A^^^^' ^^^^' °' BUFFALO J and thence by Rail to Starling Point. b 1 ATE ROOMS can be secured, with any further information desired, on application by Mail or Telegraph to „ ^ „ E. T. EVANS, B. F. PATRICK, Manager\4. D. fif P. Une, General Passenger Agent, S. D. CALDWELL, Buffalo, N. Y. Manager, U. S. Co. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 i.l 1.25 !18 2.5 i^ III 2.2 Z UA III 2.0 6' 18 U 11.6 P <^ ^^^ /; 4 Photogaphic Sciences Corporation 33 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 • Jy^ : i/.X % ADVERTISEMENTS. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND OTTAWA RAILWAY, ^ On the River St Lawrence, opposite Ogdensburgh, THB ySAHEST RAILWAY ROUTE FROM THE BAST AS WELL AS THE WE.ST TO OTTAWA CITY, The Capital of the Dominion of Canada. On arrival at Prescott or Ogdensburgh the Tourist can leava the Steamer or the Railway, and proceed thence by the St. La^vTence and Ottawa Railway, a distance of C4 milcB, to the City of OTTAWA, the Seat of the Government of Canada. The magnificent Parliamentary Buiiiings, the Falls of the Chaudiere, the extensive Lumbering and other Mills there, the celebrated Timber Slides, and the Military Canal Works, surrounded by Scenery of unusual grandeur, form ?. combination of attractions, rarely met with by the Tourist. lliree trains are run daily, to and from Ottawa, making SKre connection with those on the Grand Trunk Railway, and during the season of Navigation, with the Steamers of the Royal Mail Line, as follows : GOING NORTH. DiBtance 2 9 16 22 81 37 43 54 STATIONS. r" T -D ( Toronto Depart . ^- ■^••"- I Montreal do . Prescott Wharf Depart Prescott Junction Spencerville Oxford Kemptville Osgoode Manotick Gloucester Ottawa Arrive No. 1 EXPR'S A. M. 8.00 P. M. 1.15 l.l>a 2.25 2,45 3.45 No. 3 MAIL. p. M. 7.30 A. M. 4. 4.15 4.40 5.00 5.20 6.45 6.05 6.15 6.45 No. 5 EXPR'S A. M. 6.00 8.00 p. M. 2.40 2.50 8.10 3.30 3.45 4.05 4.25 4.35 5.10 No, 7. AOCO'N. A. M. 7.00 7.10 7 30 7.55 8.15 8.40 9.05 9.20 10.00 GOING SOUTH. Distance. STATIONS. Ml,, i! Steamboat Express. No. 4 MAIL. i^.6 EXPR'S. No. 8 EXPR'S. 11 Ottawa Depart (Tlouceater A. M. 7.00 A. M. 11.00 11.35 11.45 12.05 12.25 12.42 1.02 1.22 1.30p.m. p. M. 1.30 2.10 2.25 2.45 3.10 3.30 3.55 4.25 4.35p.m. P. M. 10.30 17 Manotick 23 Gsffoodp 87J 45 Kemptville Oxford 8.15 11.50 SDoncorville 52 Prescott Junction 9.06 9.10a.m. 12.55a.m. 54 Prescott Wharf Arrive 1.05 n rp ff ( Toronto Arrive p. M. 11.30 P.M. A. M. 11.30 ^- ^ •"• 1 Montreal do 9.30 10.30 NoTB — Trains are run by Montreal Time. Twenty Minutes allowed at Prescott Junction for Refreshment. THOS. REYNOLDS, Managing Director, Ottawa- R. LUTTRBIjL, Superintendent, Prescott. Mav 21. IR71 A. U. 7.00 7.10 7 30 7.55 8.15 8.40 9.05 9.20 10.00 TOBONTO, CANADA. G. P. SHEARS, Lessee and Manager. This Splendid Commodious Hotel (opened by the undersigned on the s St August, 1867,) is finished and furnished with every regard to comfort and luxury ; has hot and cold water, with Baths and Closets on each floor, the Bed-rooms are large and well ven- tilated, and arranged for private parties and families. The aim has been to make this the most unexceptionable first-class Hotel in Canada. The undersigned trusts that his long experience in the Clifton House at Niagara Falls will give confidence to his friends and the travelling public that they will receive every attention and com- fort, withreasonable charges, at this his new and elegant House G. P. SHEARS, Lessee and Manager. ' '1 Hi u AlAKKlllKlSHJ *'*'^*<*"^ Ptoi)i iifor. The QUEEN'S HOTEL, in the Ci^y of Toronto, is one of the krgest in the Dominion of Canada, situated on Front Street, overlooking the beautiful Bay and Laite Ontario, is convenient to Railway Stations, Steamboat Piers, and the business part of the City. The Rooms are commodious and fitted up with new furniture in most modern style. An elegant Billiard Parlor in the HousCo The grounds around it being both spacious and airy, with Croquet Lawns, &c., rendejrs it one of the most pleasant and (^esirAble Hotels for Business men, pleasure seekers, and the travelling public. T4ie Tourists will find much to interest them in the City. Thci Queen's Park, The University Buildings, The Lun-^tic Asylum, The Trinity College, and the Normal School, with its extensive -Galleries of Art ; together with pleasant drives and extensive views of a varied character. Carriages always in waiting. >"^^ M.\KK ll.Iinsff. I MANAGERS. fivpriitor. (THE QUEEN'S) ROYaL NIAGARA HOTEL ii located in the Town of Niagara, in a Iwautiful grove at tJie mouth of Niagara River on the shore of Lake OntaiJo, fourteen miles from Niagara Falls and twelve miles from St. Catharines j is accessible by Railway and Steamboat j only thirty minutes' ride by the Erie and Niagara Railway, or the New York Central railroad via Lewit" ton N. Y., from NBagara Falls, «nd two hours by Steamer from Toronto. The Building has just been erected, and newly and elegantly furnished through- out i. is a branch house of the QUEEN'S HOTEL, Toronto, and to be open for Guests during the summer season. One of the Royal Mali Line ol Steamers leaves Niagara Daily for Montreal,,, passing through Lake Ontario, the Thousand Islands, the Rapids and River St. . Lawrence, calling at aU points, both on the Canadian and American shores. The town of Niagara was at one time the Seat of Government for Upper Canada^ its surroundings arc full of varied and historical interests. The facilities for Black Bass and other Fishing, Bathing and Boating unsur- passed, The Drives are refireshing, and thr scenery beautiful in and about the Town along the banks of the Lake and River, Special arrangements can be made with families desiring board for the season, ^l1 1- HBl ! ^Sr^nf C#ttlriit $S, %. 11 1I.>(;an - - - - i'RCM'kii.rOR. . ']^B8 8T11EKT, in the iimnediutt; vifinity oltiie Froiicii Caihctha! < '^ tixuch " Ville Mario,- Notre Duuit- tSuoct, near the Pi^st Officp, Place d'Arik r ju;(l Jjaiiks, it is only a i\\\ niinut«'d wuJk from (jrey or Klack Xurii,t- iifP, new Covut House, Readiug Room?, Uhnnip de Mars, (wh-r.i the troo]-^ '.ro nrvieMctl), Me-hauiw' Institute, Bonseconrs Mark«K, ;i..ri Fiishionalil,. htorftg. The n.;w Theatre Royal is directly in ;-.'ar or th.> ifouse, ;i; ■! .'(■veral oJ tiie best boxes arc n^rularly kept for Quests of tlii- Hotel. The ST, LAWR!]NOE HALL has long be^n regarded us the mc^t '•otKUus' r.ad tushiouable Hotel m Montreal, and iS patronixed by i] . (iovernnient on ail public occasions, includinfj that ol" (he viijjt of J::,'.- Royal Highness the Prince oJ Wales and suite, and that uf IV: Excel!ei;ry tJ.e (Governor General and suite. Daring the ;>aflt wint. . : Hotel i,;., ieen considerably enlarged, so that in , .tore the ProjH-ietor hopes to ;.; ..lie to accommodate couilbrtably all who may favor him with Ihdr patrojj. f.ge. A!l Rooms lighted by gas. The Constdate Oflice of the VvihC. Htiii^s is in the Hotel, ad well as Telegmph Office to all parts. The propnr- (or bcgS'to announce Uiat having recently purchased the ST, LAWRENCK liALL Property, it is bis intention ne.xt fall to pull down and rebuild -t Miibail the modern improvements, including an Kk-Tafur ■ thus moh'sg ••lih HoWl secoTid to none in ibv Unitevi .'^la^e?. • |lv>ttreal. Mftv, .'tTl. ADVitKlIiEMK^Ti. i m\' If 'I TEL Yid'ORiA Sou ARK, Montreal, 'IT' [' take the liberty of calling your attention. • > \ \ the above well known Hotel, situated in or. • of the pleiisantipst parts of the City, Victoria Square, in the vicinity of Public Offices, Banks> &c., wluc: has been newly furnished, and undergone numerou> alterations with additions to render it a iirst class f Tote In making the improvements, the Proprietors hav . taken particular pains to provide every comfort fo: (niests I'hey have fitted the House up with all th- modern improvements, Bath Rooms and Closet hav .' been added to every floor. They feel satisfied that thev can oiTer accommodation which cannot fail to give sat isfaction to parties favoring them with their patronage. The long experience of Messrs. Hogan and Gerike'- in the Hotel Business, with Mr. Montgomery as Matv.i ger, (who has acted ;is such in foreign countries, j. well as in this) will be a guarantee that the St. Jame. will be second to no Hotel in the .Dominion. It will be optional for parties desiring rooms at th • St. James to engage them with or without Boarvi. ff»r which the most nvxierate prices will be chara;ed H. HOGAN & CO, Ai)VERTls:/MKNl^ ALBION nOTF.[„ MnGILl AND ST. PAUL STREETS, WO.VTRRA!,. ('A\AJ>,\, J.£ASr(tRT\VKNiV VHAFIS BKKV THR FAVOKi i .; RaSO'^^l: >' ,, gen*-!',.! travellmg public of the Vmt,^d ^U,, 33 well aa of Oaa . i ., when vi<.-;Ting Montreal on business or pleasunN Ik 13 centrally lo.:-.,'-.. ] ,' McGil! cj,pei. the. jjreaf thoroughfHr? and cnmmprri«I o^^ntre ot •;-. - y commandinjr a magnilicent view vi Ih-- f?iv,,r S» f.awrenco. the VlotoviV ..^.Icige on fhe lot>, an.1 a full vf^w of Vic^ori. ,.^„.rc r,n.i Mount Rnv .: o.i Hv:- right. The Holel is ftiraiahed throughout in >x superior mm:y'. v l ■"rerytbJn- arrflnge.l with a view to the comf.^rr of g-ucafc^, A3 oa> of . i ■ i trgest. llofels in the Dominion, having ample accommolaHon for f/; : ■• : > i «, ^:ii\e kq.tin Hrst-class skyle, the moderate sum of $1.50 per diy .v;:i ik ■iferesfP by r<-awu>h.>i-„!; the ^Luroy Hotsl whfta viaHfajv Montfft*! OJlJnKRR * STIilA'iVS .' I vf.. )»■!•••) itn AliVlihTISEMKN'l! KKrABLlSHED 1818. 271 Notre Dame Street, sm Largest As- sortment of fflf if ^ ill the %M © Dominion. IN ALL VARIETIES. Tf'aveUlng Clocks^ Fine Focket Gittlery, Travelling Bags and Cases Fitted complete, All kind* of FINE JEWELLERY made to order on thort iio'i-t?, * CHAIN-MAKlNda Specialty. • I .1 f.ftnti for the celebrated Ulysse Nardin Watch. ';!.<• i.i.ov{ WA'i' CM twuk fhr KIRbT I'RlZt ..t :i>e Nati^jisi Ubscivatoiy f< .' !!i;r.gerf> vitsviTig Moiitreal arc rcspccdully invited ■ .- vi'-.!{ TH'IS (4^0 IVOTRK DA.TIK Street, aitloininc: Merrlll'w^ ami <^9P*tfiiU «!»« Fur Butabllslttueikt of JToIta lleudcr^ioil. 4l C'0.,i ^"iMTf Uii-y win fiiHi TT "R IP T A fl IP ^^^^ '■"' ■^"•'■s*'^- '<> '^'^ moat cosvt>- ;;j\>4iiuctkii>. WM* MCDUNNOUGH, MiCCliSSOK TO JAMKS PARKiN, p^TISW AND FOREIGN LACE H U SC m N'i'lHS DAMR SrRV'BJ llO^TP.KAf., ADVBRTrdEMBNT^ ^1 B^HT.tBLISHBD ITti. mm m ill m t AND H8 ST JAMES STREET. MQtmEAl pPPOSlTE pT. |:.A WHENCE /4aLL. MI13HII. TESStlR, Of best, (lualily made to ordot in latcat stylia, MONTRBAl. S. GOLTMAN, MERCHANT TAILr'^, .Jt HABERDASHEa, 2'26 ST. JAMES STREET. MONTREAL. W3.~A 'arge a*!orr.m?Df of %i!'t.UnodS}K:ii({ v:-.l •'•.: ^--t, ;.>v^,; „,;., ,.,;,„»< ii ^i VfeM'Jl&feMhNJ? F\A 'J JROl^i:2I31.-) K- BH B Pwe Ar^imr, i| Arid Gt'iitry Prince Hapoieoe^ of M^ntreaU TRADE MARK. ISTAPLiSHEL '.647. JOHN FAIiMBB, KAIR OKKiiSKR, WKi HAKKR ANU PKItniHKIt, ;mi <.iu iicli <.!f HUMAN HAIR. &0, SWi'JCliES AND CHJGNONS IN EVERY VARIETY. 7HE FINEST ENGLISH AND FRENCH PERFUMERY, HOT i^i¥P a©LP ^■^"^»S, .**67 Notre Dame Street, rear entrance St. James SUt^et, Opposite St. Ijawrence Hall, Montreal, "('(PRISTS faif icBpeclfull^ mjuesied lo call and exaitiue .v -Stocft, Charlks |. Baird, 8, Fine Turkey .Sponjie«, Fariuil< <'olo0ne. Ciciiulue, in Plain and Wlciier bottle*. EVERY ARTICLE WARRANTED GENUINE. ¥im OIU Brandy and Wines Tor medicinal Parpo^e< liemcrribcr tbc address, Ihc corner shop, below St. Lawrence Tit' KENNETH CAMPBELL & CO. C, B. Chadwicks, (KoKMBUTv DION lih'urHKKS',) ST. JAMES STREET. MONTREAL m m if Spacicu' and %\'eU VentUat'yJ. Sixleen biat' da rd -/Im e nca n If able ^ , Orders received for PHBLAN c^ COLLJSNDERS' Table*, and fill tho OtaeF scceasorios of the G&uiO. C B CHADJVfCk\ Propnetor, n A!>Vi!:iU'IaHM£Nt: FnORTKfT \xn M'*fT DIRPCT ROUTH FOU New York, Boston, White and (ireen Monntains, Lakes riiampiain and (leor^e. RUKNIN'G Maguificeut Dniiviug Room Cars, auci PidlmaN Palace SIcepivg Cars. Saggage examined at Montreal by Customs' Officer, and CheokAd tiirougi. TICKETS, STATEROOMS and SEATvS in DRAWIVG ROOM CAR3, ^nd BERTHS in SI.EEPINO CARS, with fuli and relinhle information, Mn be obtained at the COMPAXV'S OFFICE, N'o. KiO ST. JAMSS iSTREBT, opposite St. Lawrence Hall, Montreal. t. MiLLIS, General Agent, No. 5 State LStteei, Boston. F. PICARD, Ticket A2-1' J, ** K A.VCl'A.CTI-RHBe' <^V .. ». Saratoga, Imperial and Eugenie Trunks holld Leather Trunks, Portmanteaux and Valise** Bags, Satchels, Ac, WIIOI.ESALE AIST) RKTAII. Qii. iNuirvij jJiiMlJ Ciiiiijiii, MUIliRiiAL ar.B.-Prlzo Meda! obtQin«>d a! the Vnns^ K:«hibiMon of I'^tif fop fh? •^xc.'i'»QSft li- irunlM exhibited.. being r!i'> hijrb.u^ '.otiof awardod N> anyTrnk Manufacturer •«: 'sntMD Americn. " • i \ ApVKRTISEMRNTb. ' I I'J.ATTSBURGH, N. Y. '.t'ljit? IJoU'i is £iiuau»cl at l*lailalvu-gh, uiM>n ih*.- WeKlern Shore ot LAK8 ( MAMPLAIN, 01) the Banks of Cuiiil/trlanu Bay, wljich wm Uie jceut- •,' •t.cija\al battlt oJ' 1814. Fine vi«ws fan It- liad frc^m ite iiiHiiias iu :;'.l •iiH'ctions, wliich intliuk llie Luke, tiie Iijlarda, the (it eon Mounujius ou \):t b-Hsi, the Adirondack^ on »he South, iiri'sentinj.^ tviT variety of .scenery. Kit' >vild, the picturesque, the grand. Tliis Hotel is retired, n lius i^eautiflil lanlec and llovper {.^roiuid-:, jiuifet of spring waier^ spacious and well vec- i.iatred rooms, which, tofrethei 'with the pleasant dnvoB in the vicinity, offfi >itti actions to the seeker after heahb and pleusure tliat cannot bo surpasstvi. To See Lake Qiamplain and Lake George by Daylight, '..♦'fcTe Mdntrea! by the afternooi: Train ana ainve at FOUgUKT'S HOTKL W supper ; take day boat the following day tor Whiteliall, or Lake George, krnte at J^aratuf^a, vU^ Whitehall, to sunper For Lake George, l.«'ftT<' the St^'ani*" at Tieoiideruga, llienee by Siage four miles arouiXj iirt' .lapids to Lake George, thence by Stean.t'n MLNNE-HA-HA to Oa'd- lace are the ruini of Foil. S^ liliam Henry, of Revolutionary fame. By this arrangement the Tourist has the luivanlage of passing by day- L^lit through thf* 'Mitire length of two ot the most noted sheets of water m America, seeing all their varied beauty and poruong connected wi»h them, ik'tti fcifitoricul ii'u] roinanlic. New Route to the Adirondacks. rim WHITEHALL AND PLATTSBURGHRAILKOAD is now compleied itiid bi^jng oi>erattd from Plattsbargh to Ansable Hiver StMion, a distanc* of twenty railes, connecting with a four- horse line of feiavee, runmug dailj ic the principal pummer lesoits of the GREAT \Vn>l>ERNK!SS. Ticket* K'l this route eau t>e procuied at '.he pm.,ii'ti'. Ti-.V:,e>- Uftleefi on the Lak<» i'tvfvxiii'.hu; ib^:e»-!i.ers f't.i. st th,t Hcivl' ; I ft( VRRTISKM*?*.'']'-" Lake Champlain and Lake George. NlAGARyl, OG DENSE URG, MOh TREAL and OVEJUiC TO New lork, Albany, Troj, Saraioga, Lake Wcortfe, Mt. Munsfleld, the AdIroiMlacks. WilUerness ana all Southern and Western point!*. Two Trains Daily ikaym MONTREAL and 06DENSBURG v^ou i^^Ua^ M Couee's I'uim wi»h tbt Kleganl uud Coujuiudiuus Sleaiiioi-s of Un; CHAMPLAIN TRANSFOKTATION COMPANY: VERMONT Oai'T. VV. IJ. FhA.j-i ADIRONDACK • Wm. Anderson NJTED STATES - Gko. Rusiii.o>y. Forming TWO DAILV LINES eacli wwy ihiouf.h Ihe Luke. couaecUog I.-. TvtndimigawitliStef»iu*;r "MINNE- HA-HA," 'hiuugh Lukt? Guorg..', a;>^ 1.; WiiiXehull wi;h Truiiis o! Jit.'ijss».'li«t'r atid .S«nito*'.%- ■ ■. gh, Tru.v. Albativ, Ntw Yurk, aud all SouJhtrii anF Wostusu puiuT, " Theoiil) Route to LAKK GI']OK<;i<:. aad i»uly »ir«M Koule to «4 UAT •>€;.%. Thie Rouie oftl-is Business: Men and Tourists aiiiacvions ponMi^x'A uy Qi» iVtiK-f Line, combitiiiig as il does le^js (Jhrui^x's »liiin any othei, ana 5cei»t.'ry :.ore picturesque, historicai and ruiiiiintio ihun c;in be Juuud iu jtar oXhm i-M\ of the American Contiuetil iu the saiu'; distance. The Steamers composing the Line are, as they huve always bi-en, moMt • f elegance, neatness and comfort, and evtiry a>.leuMon is paid by JUoir . tticers to the patroiis of the route. Through Tickets and information furnisiied at the Ticket Office.^ al Niapara; at the Ofhces of the Grand Trunk Railway ; at the Couii.va:iy'» uftice, St. Lawrence Hall building, .Montreal ; vi. board Jsteauiers. a:.d at U e }>rincipal officee oi all cunnectiug- Lines. ^'taterooms secured at the Office of CAPL c/. a BOCK us. i'J. J.fur>:h:-f /J oil BvUciiig^ A/oiitrciil. A, I iiy/i/fAii HfB>,W<*TOJ< "V... Wk> ife'Vj Ai>ViSKlI:,HMKM*8 SEA BAlIflNG. CACOUNA. Tf J IS K S T A B [. f S H M V. N T ha, been considL-rafv KNLARGED, and i.^ now capable of alTording accomm-j otJor for SIX HUNDRED GUESTS. Additional Land ha^ 'r^tCT, purchased and laid out in Pleasure Grounds ; it is bcautifullv fUuatcd on the Banl?^ of the St. Lawrence, commanding a fino ^ 'cw of the River; and the Stoamen and Vessels pass up and nown ?r close proximity to the place. The BATHING aceommo- catior ha^ al.-o been much improved. Billiard Table?, Bowline Alleys, kc, k<:., kc., on the p^cmisc^. InUrumental Bandalwa' ^n atfcndancc. There i> a Telegraph Office in the Hotel, r- Jidvantagc not possessed b\ any place on the North Shore; an.j. with !nc advantage of Railroad and Steamboat convcvance dai!' , n «!andf unrivalled by any other place of the description ii» v.anada, It is ?uperfluou« to say more in its favor than the fac.-. tr>a! a number of the most prominent citizens of the Province^ bavc built beautiful residences, and occupy them during th? Summer months; probably not less than three thousand poop!'- arc ]r.c3tcd here in various cottages. There arc three diffcren iplaccf of public worship in the village. Stabling has bcenercctcd on the premises, enabling parties to keep their own Horaes and O risgt* at reasonable ratc;-^. The Proprietor has also arranged iv'r.. Mr. VjiMERj, of Quebec, to take down a Stable of Horsci-, ma pvc riding lessons daily; he has a number of Side Saddles for the wsc or Ladies. In fact, no pains have been spared to render thiv r^'ftct » favorite resort during the Summer months. Libera: aTrangomcnts wili Kc made with parties remaining the whole, o: fart of the vSeaso'' "i rans'^nt visitors charged at the rate o.' 1^2.50 per d^y. Mc^^r . SHIPMAN. f-.;xa., Sc KENLEY, Al VKKllMIWBN'l" iyjlJJJi \in(KMjll.\s. ^5 PROFIX.1S Etousi: FRANCONIA NOTCH. N.H. ib€ rROFlLl-: is rtiiU'iig JJie larj^est of all the Muuntrtin ll,\^>\^ .rsurpbbst'd iu all its apjiuiiitinents ainj iirntii'ii'iin:iitd Vov <}j;v.v l»KI!R liiid BBAUTY of swiitiy Ihc loculiuu can not be t-iuiiP ;.'l v; ;,1Z' WiHTK Mountains, JS ';'....,;, „ JHL OLD MAN OF THK MorNTAlN,' • J>UuKILK I.aKI}" ym LAKK," >MOI NT LAFAVKrTK," "TlIK FI.U.MK.' THK IMUL/'and thc'JJA.SlN." Daily M.Uls belwtien Nt;w York a-hUJudioii l'depr;if)h OHke in luiLl. Ku>7 of awi'ii^. from all i.oiutd, boiiiir oi\[\ .-» •iiurldiatance froiu Liukluii, wliere pai^rtt'iigfrs over H. 0. and >| k'k v.ndConn. and I'ass Itiver R. li. leave Uie Cars, reaeiiin^ I'rotiiu ji j'. .v.j i • '•' M. Daily Sjlugea I.U all jirincipai I'uiius ill Ihe Mouiituin?. I'OKI M«>: TAFT So GREENLEAF. l'i;(>Ki|.|.; iJtH HI':, N. ]i. WHITE MOUNTAIN LITERATUKE. 1. UOI \T WASHINGTON IN UI.Mi:K. I ho exjKirit'iK'.'K .it a >-t;j>)itiiic i-xptMiiiioii ujion t)i.' liii<))t'rtl luoun . KNfitAND IU the Wi>eria: ut IhTO-Tl. .Showing h«.w th.'y Uved inui- tl.au -; .»Vtc.H sbuyo tlie l.'voloj the^ea. amidst Ui.ui:i>s m.d Sioicm'. and .hiii^nT.- cjuaMy uu ■irctic expcru;ncc, with lull accounts or their daily liie, toKcther with i jt<.'r.'stiU£ WKTwrnuuHiu .M. lUcuHu and UiJSKuvA) io.ns, niokintr a ijo.^k ut ti,.- .,. ,'i - " iiUritl. UuiMol, vJoth, hcuuiifiilly llhmtrated. , a . ,. II. %ViII'ri^ HILLS. liV 'I'liOMAS STARR KING. T/.c/' Llift/Jiis, LdfiJiLiipc . hTO cloth jrilt top, bev si(fcs o y ^ Halfcalt with addlUoiial riiotoKraohiclllu-trat'iuuV.' .'.'■.".■■ Morocco •• .1 •• '..".! JII.-I|I«(TOU¥ OF WUITK MOI NTAINS. BY BF.NJ. G. WILLEY. Vimo cloth, itUiPtrat.'d *! -,> Kmbracii)^ History ot Whitt- Mountains Iron) earliest stUleWe'nt to iir.''^t'r"> wih many! udlan Legends aiidXraditionp. n^«vu»»opi. ... CHICK .<. ANDREWS, I I }-'.ir,k:ln Htr 7 iwuu, a.i... FHroA> Mornings at 60 clock, touching at tho above-namert landu-^ thriving tn PorfhMul ..onie afternoon about half-past four o'dock '^'^'^''■-' ll I ^vt,^l'rf • *''T,FWTSTnM '- C.pr. CHARLES DEBRLVij, .•^tfam^r liTi >V iOiUlN, Master, will leave Railroa.l! >^!iarf. foot ot SWito fetre?^ Poptlarid pvoit TUESDAY and FRIDAY I'v.-r n;r?. fit 10 o'clock, or oa arrival of'Expre?^ Train from Sosta ) FOR MA( HIAS PORT, f nndr np al Tlock^and, Casline, Deer Isle, c^^dg^rick, Monat D'^s-. V R Ihe lAiivu^m will land a^ Bar Harbor, Mount Desert each - » fit'turnfnj?, will leav*; Maghias Pprt every MONDAY and THURSn\' KS same't^ht' ''''■''"• ^' ^^' above.aau.ed landing., arrinng ■ ROSS k STiiRCIYANT, GSyRRAL AGMNT.s, '•Ti i«nd, Mftr, (871. |7» OniiMercUl iitroet. Mount Di:si:r «f u .^';;^ mI -^^ -^n milP.-! M.t from Portian.l. Maine '.iaOu^ p.^tir-M v,-, ,,,, ?l^.ifr,J^*^^''', 'i I' ^'«l>t«m mn,.M ionR an,l about f,wroirJ iu >roi ^S , 'nlf ^. ^M ^'^^ '""'" '""^ ^y Trenton l'.ri,lge. Clvamplaiu n^.n.-d tiv< u a.lj «a, -l SS. "" '''"""* °''''' '^■ * **'•' C'f ancient fi^horman, pruMt ^in.l wvas-- ' )•, 1,,. "Tlio cJiant of rnanv a holy hvmn And solemn bfUii of veippr riiigiMfr ' .„V)pn?^lSn ^''"'■'^' ^^■''■•^?9''l '-^ 'ai'i *0 »'!ivo boonburlni, runu of',!,. -.«nari >i »ne.ipnt dwR i.inRs and other objpr.ts of iiitercsf iiiv»-r^ify thp toiiriat'H Mmhic amrt... tne mountain lafc... the ..asid. 'hamlots, tho bo^tlu.i cra^V'JovVr tTio ko^^^^^^^ meadows. Since tho .lays of tho c. ivirorifs- who'hdd pro J-rr/ hJre '/-^ ie? ar^V 1 rvraanco "arbor- the hislory of Mt. l)....rt ha. presented le.7ofh^i;tr/, ^ifr!.«f>l^' ^",'^^^^''■ ^I'^-'.P'acL has enjoyed a ffrowin? colobrity as a hoalthfui ■».,„ Ofior rrport. Its 5icpnery ..^ uii.'.inalh'i in vari.'tv r,i-f?.>ntin(r i„ th.Aamp •iV-.rhh v hood as ono ha.- suRa.v.tKi, "the hi. of .Shoali .i hI SVa h"a '"tt Na>fan^^ anlt ifv «^nock, Nowrort and tin. Catskills, • The hm-ri.-d travo er carVu^'awL^o^^ Of narrow capo., and isi.'s wSsirli ■• • Shimbcrinir to OcM.Uis Lullobv ' No vifitor eau evo, fo>p:.-t • ths qui^t charm of i.h' .-ovo^ at th<> h(>*d iiff, . » ,> ., • the m,;i :n thn moadow un,ior.Dry'>[t. aiid th.. m.-rry brook Mo-r/thVtP-; waves dying in harmony with tho murmur of th.. -.inoV; calm sunri^ \n->r , '.* :k^i^^!^!^;^ r !i:;;;£;^ w?n'^ ^^^'^^^^^^v. nu.n.h au ti^; r^^;iiS3^^^', mayhebfld. espociHlly nortfiward round the hf"ad of Somes Sound wtdch no*, • ^r'f^i^' V'"-'*'";"^'- l.''^'^'''''3 ••^'>"»^svilIo, tho tourist wm.b/anS'* ve r-i-t tho westerly slope of < Jreen Mt, about im feet high A road Vud" to the^umm ■ . ?u;< Mznlc ill FriTio:! enchanting. and „ Of the mountain and headland i*-hich an.^wor to Jtreurn The tcenery about iSar Ifarboi ^^}l2oJ^rrT'\^^'' '^'''' -*''*^ nvt^rbay «u,. u^^,u^wi. w^ucn m.wot U> r^ni^. ? L'Jff/ r "^ ^''"''^^'r ni«™'.>"t>H aiid " Wiiose melody yn lingers Ike the la^i r >r^ f4on of the red man's reouiem,"-a volume miffht he written !»'<« v,(>r4 Ponr miles from IJar Harbor, southerly, at Schooner Head ar^ ^nnlIf:n,» vr.>„ ■nd the Devil's Oven, the one a cleft in the crirthroLh whiXu^^^ «)out'. with terrific force, and the other a huge cavern beaulif^lU-i^^ wf»Tt';d°ilf[''''?™'"'^«''^P'»"^^'- ^^''"^'^ *J» the broad dank Crena4"n rJi'l.Sl°^-hHl r''^ '^''^T' "f ^'■"^'^^d >^trange creation? of wondrou^ /ea Hfe fr^^ the t:ny white diii.sy biid, and sw^et aaemon^'rf, to the s^eat tawnv crl.Atni. / -s^ w^ broad fide striped with amix-r and crlm.on, cover" thl Hand ^ creature. wa.>*» ►K '~^^t^""''^'it reflected from the blue waves shone on the dark vauU ahove u « i^r»?,th^»)?^f ";"'"' window down cathedral nave ; and sittinSore oa^ ao-^ log^w.th wind and wave and echo for organ roll, we im^ Old Hundred " 5;.e TBr:uOfj Oi i asofitis a^ Mr. i.)hs«,u at ?.he noonrid-' of the year i^itj^ir. ■'ISj; ^ ' ""'* ""^^ °'*^'"' '^' ^^'""^^^'^ oecho;.;.,t i!;i.r;i ^^''; ^iS, /.DVfiRTi!:EJIKM>:. \m f i Ml i' U ^ hs^O^' J^' I 1 1 s 'j; (; L .V s s Fi o -j^ r t J-.ARGEST IN j\fEW pNGLAND, SUPERIOR .-\C.'COMM<..iDA'riONs7 "^^^ It is ccnira?ly lucuici, convcniuu :■> RaJlwav Cilices u ^ ' ... <.:^ -: Amusement, contain. aJl :h, niodcm iinpmvements, Suites and Single Apartmeiits, wiUi BathliiL- ^mf Uatcr-convenleiices adjoininjr, Tan" iiK^^^^^ pII And is. noted throughout the State, ior u, deanlinesc aiui ^omfort rhe VERTICAL RAILWAY, at the service o. (.UHST W 6.50 A.M. nil midnight, makes all it. rooms easily acccisiMe a^ the apartments vvitli BATHL^G CONVFMF\'CF>* ' cuiarly desirable for FAMILfES and SUMMER TRWnLm^' LEWIS RICE ^ SON, PROPRIETORS. „ , HAXOVEK 8TkEEl'. (ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN) School Strlht, ^B O S T O 3V . JOti^ F. mLli5. ^ .,.,' i.SiS^ i;ARyt¥ !>. papksk. r p ft ' K I. IlKMltS, Inu: ancf t Office, iibie, and are parti- KLLERS. TliEEr P ,.■ ».s®