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Title: The Quebec Central Railway. Sights and scenes for the tourist. Pen and pencil sketches of Quebec City, the Chaudiere and St. Francis valleys, and lower St. Lawrence River
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Quebec Central Railway. Passenger Department
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Publisher: Boston: Rand Avery
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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m the easy rapture of old Car-tier, the name of Isle of Bacchus. Tor miles fur-ther down the river,either shore isbright and popu-lous with the con-tinuous villages ofthe habitans, eachclustering about itsslim-spired church,in its shallow valeby the waters edge,or lifted in moreeminent pictur-esqueness uponsome gentle height.The banks,nowherelofty or abrupt, aresuch as in a south-ern land some ma-jestic river mightflow between, wide,slumbrous, open to MONTMORENCI FALLS, NEAB QUEBEC. all the heaven and the long day till the very set of sun. Butno starry palm glasses its crest in the clear, cold green fromthese low brinks ; the pale birch, slender and delicately fair,mirrors here the wintry whiteness of its boughs ; and this isthe sad great river of the awful North. The whole scene, from Cap Rouge in the south-west toCap Tourment in the north-east, is indescribably grand andbeautiful, and one wishes to linger by the way; but thetrain moves on, and leaving the river we soon reach Harlaka
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Junction, the transfer station of the Intercolonial Railway,for passengers to or from Riviere du Loup, Cacouna, Halifax,and all points in the Maritime Provinces. Lunch from the well-appointed buffet is now indulged in,and while enjoying the good things of life, glimpses of St.Henri Junction, and several small Canadian villages, cottageswith red-painted roofs, and the ever-recurring village churchwith its tin-covered roof and spire, vary the prospect andenhance our delight. After passing Scotts Station, we enter the valley of theChaudiere River, noted for its gold mines, and the route bywhich Benedict Arnold reached Quebec, one hundred yearsago, after a march of unparalleled hardship and suffering.In the quiet pastoral beauty of this peaceful scene, in thesmiling grain-laden fields, rich mead-ows, and picturesque slopes of thissunny region, we see nothing likelyto recall the daring, hazardous marchof 1775. Starting with about1,000 men, passing up theKennebec River into LakeMegantic and

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