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Illustrated
Description of the

Qty of Quebes

AND THE

Surrounding Country

Issued by the Passenger
Department of the ^ e^

Quebec Qntral Railway

SHERBROOKE, P. Q.

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frank GRUNDY,

Ger^ial Manager.

A. STEELE,

Superintendent.

J. H. WALSH,

General Pass. Agent,
Sherbrooke, P.Q.

R. M. STOCKING, P. R. NOLL,

City and District Agent, Travelling Pass. Agent,

32 St. Louis St., Quebec. Room 74 Union Depot,

Boston, Mass.

Sherbrooke, June, 1898.

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Quebec Central Railway*

Description of the Route.

no other route' can the tourist and traveller reach so
many delightful summer resorts, and certainly no
other affords such varied and picturesque scenery,
as that traversed by the Qwetec Central Railway
and its connections. It is easy to determine upon
taking a Summer outing, but it is not so easy to decide
where to go. Time and purse are factors which assert
themselves, and it is with the intention of assisting the
tourist to make his choice that this little book is published.
The Quebec Central Railway offers peculiar facilities to intending holiday
makers ; forming, as it does, the intermediate and direct line between New York,
Boston, Portland, the East-
ern and Middle States, and
Quebec. Traversing a
country of beautiful lakes
and rivers, its line leads b)
the most pleasant ways to
the most pleasant places.
The train service, consist-
ing of elegant palace cars,
which run without change
between Quebecand Spring-
field, Quebec and Boston,
and Quebec and Portland,

CHATEMI I'RONTKNAC, gUEBEC.

A QUEBEC CENTKAI, KAII.WAY.

assure to travellers all modern conveniences and comforts, and at the same time,
tickets can be purchased by this route at very moderate prices.

Since first the pioneers of summer travel began their search for the beauti-
ful or magnificent in Canadian scenery, the region of the Lower St. Lawrence has
steadily grown in popularity. Quebec, called by a recent writer, " the city of all
cities on this continent," is situated where the River St. Lawrence begins to widen,
and on the boldest promontory of its whole course. A curious fascinating old town,
picturesquely sloping on the sides of Cape Diamond to a height of several hun-

THE CITADEL, QUEBEC.

dred feet above the river, crowned with the symmetry of the Citadel, around which
cluster so many historical events of interest.

Of all Canadian cities, Quebec offers to the stranger the greatest at-
tractions. Considered historically, it has no compeer on this side of the Atlantic ;
considered picturesquely, it aflfords a striking illustration at every point, worthy of
the artist's pen. Men and women with eyes for the beautiful can see pictures
almost every step that they may take. From the windows of the Chateau
Frontenac, or from DufTerin Terrace, one of the finest views on the continent may

DESCRIPTION OF THE ROUTE.

be had. Joaquin Miller, who travelled much, said that of all the wonder spots of
the world that he had seen, four only came up to the expectations which he had
formed of them before he had seen them. One of these was the delicious Bay of
Naples, the second was Niaj^ara, the third was the marvellous amber-colored
Saguenay, and the fourth was "quaint, curious and unrivalled Quebec." The
poet used to sit for hours in the twilight viewing nature from the grand and
imposing promenade of Dufferin Terrace, the finest walk in the world.

(iRANDK Al.I.KK AND PARLIAMENT HOUSE, Ql'KBKC.

An American paper, describing Quebec, a short time ago said :

" The situation of Quebec is rare indeed; with the St. Lawrence on one
side and the smaller St. Charles on the other, joining the large river there ; then
with the Laurentian Hills in their blue grandeur to the north and west, and hills in
fact beyond the water on every side. Certainly nothing can compare with the
wonderful peculiarity and variety of its scenery. Lord Dufferin, when in Canada
as Governor-General, is remembered to have considered it the finest situation,
with possibly one exception, in the world. I have spoken of the sensation one
has of being in a foreign land, and this is much increased by even a short distance

6 gUKHKl' I'KNTKAI. UAILWAY.

from the city, where is found a very primitive life and ^'reat simplicity. There we
see the low white houses all facinj,^ one way, on account of the hi^h winter winds ;
women in quite larj^'e hats workiiif,' in the fields, often sitting' there while pullinjf
or picking; their herbs, and toilin},' v^ry hard to raise the few vetjetables, ej-jjs,
etc., they may have for the market. Then on Saturday we go to the deligh.ful
old market place and find each woman presiding over her little store of products —
a motley collection. Cienerally she ha^ a lamb, some eggs, berries, vegetabl( s, a
few dried herbs, and always, with an eye for decoration and a few extra pennies,
some bunches of simple, old-fashioned garden flowers. She keeps all these in the
cart in which she has driven to town, and usually sits in the back of it herself,
crying their superior qualities. Although the population of the city is mainly
dependent on these small market carts for supplies for the table, one always finds
plenty of delicious things -the lamb of the country being perhaps especially good.
" After visiting the market, we naturally walk through the quaint, narrow
streets of the Lower Town, where we find most picturesque spots, often historical,
and hardly believe that there, among the banks and business warehouses of to-day,
was the fashionable quarter of a century ago. Now there are the poorer and lower
classes, in small and apparently un-get-at-able tenements, over and back of the
shops. But in looking down upon them from the Upper Town, we see quantities
of attractive little tenements, with strange, romantic sorts of entrances, and with
dormer windows, always filled with plants ; and, no matter how poor the inhabi-
tants, a bright screen or shade at every window. It is difficult to imagine the
strangeness of this whole town below another. It looks almost like another

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DKMCRIPTION OF THH KOUTR.

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world, and when the sun has leff the Lower Town by several hours earlier than one
has it above, we think it must really seem to be another world. The inhabitants
of Lower Town gladly come up to the charniiug terrace when the band plays,
several times durinjf the week, and to church. The constant church-jfoin},' and
frequent church fetes also remind one of the European cities, and no less the
demure nuns of various orders often met in the streets. If inclined to visit their
houses, the convents, one is sure of beinjf courteously received.

" As a matter of fact, the French are so larj,'e a proportion of the Province
of Quebec, one hears constantly their languajje (or the peculiar Canadian patois)
in the streets and shops — and by the cultivated, the purest of Parisian French.
There is, however, no difficulty whatever, in j^etting on with no knowledge of any-
thing- but our own tongue, for the people ;'.s a rule speak both languages.

"On warm days we may take excursions on the river, getting from there
fine views of the beautiful residences with extensive grounds on the shore There
are many attractive places to visit, either up or' down the river, .>here one hears
some legend or story of local interest, and romantic nooks, where we may halt for
luncheon. As we recall its many and charming features we feel, with a pleasing
character in a well known novel, wlio has said, ' See Venice and die,' but, rather,
I would say ' See Quebec and live forever.' "

We have taken the liberty of quoting a part of the beautiful poem, "The
Habitant " from Dr. Drummond's recent book. The simple, pastoral life of the
French-Canadian habitant is very graphically described, and, if space would
permit, we would willingly have given the poem in full.

The Habitant*

E place I fjet born, me, is up on do reever

Near foot of de lapide dat's call Clieval Rlanc
Beejj mountain behin' it, so hijjfh you can't climb it

An' whole place she 's mebbe two hundred arpent.

De fader of nie, he was habitant farnu-r.

Ma gran' fader too, an' hees fader also, '

15ey don't mak' no monee, but dut is n't fonny,

For it 's not easy to get ey'ryt'lng, you inus' know.

Ail de s.im' dere is somet'ing dey got ev'ryboddy,

Dat's plaintee good healt', wat de monee can't geev,

So I'm working away dere, an' happy for stay dere
On farm by de reever, so long I was leev.

O 1 dat was de place w'en de spring tam she's comin',
Wen snow go away, an' de sky is all blue —

W'en ice lef de water, an' sun is get hotter

An' back on de njedder is sing de gou-glou —

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W'er> small sheep is firs' comin' out on ile pasture,

Deir nice leetle tail stickin' up on deir back,
Dey ronne wit' deir nioder, an' p!ay wit' each oder

And jomp all de tani jus' de sam' dey was crack—

An' ole cow also, she s jflad winter is over.

So she kick herse'f r.p, ati' start oflf on de race
Wit" de two-year-ole heifer, dat's purty soon lef her,

VV'y ev ryt'injf's crazee all over de place !

An' down on de reever de wil' duck is quackin'
Alonjj by de shore leetle san' piper ronne —

De bullfrog' he 's jjfr-rompiii' an' dorc is jompin'

Dey all got deir own way for niak' it de fonne.

But Spring 's in beeg hurry, an' don't stay long wit' us.
An' firs' ling we know, she go oft" till ne?' year,

Den bee coninvnce luinimin', for suMimer is comin'
An' purty .-.oon corti 's gettin' ripe on de ear.

Mos' ev'ryday r if ' it pass on de rapide

De voyageurs singin' some ole chanson
'Bout girl down de reever — too bad dey mus' leave her.

But conin' back soon wif beaucoup d'argent.

An' den wen de fall an' de winter come roiin' us

An' bird of de summer is all fly away.
Wen niebbe slie's snowin", an' nort' win' is blowin'

An' night is mos' t'ree tam so long as de day.

You t'ink it was hodder de habitant farmer?

Not at all — he is happy an' feel satisfy.
An' cole may las' gjod wile, so long as de wood-;-ile

Is ready for burn on de stove by an' bye.

Wen I got plaintee hay put away on de stable

So de sheep an" de cow, dey got no chance to freeze,

An' de lien all togedder— I don't min' the wedder—

De nort' win' may blow just as mooche as she please.

An' some cole winter night how I wish you can see us,

We'i I smoke on de pipe, an' de ole woman sew-
By de stove of Tree Reever— my wife's fader geev lier
On day we get marry, dat 's long tam ago—

We leev very quiet 'way back on de contree
Don't put on sam style lak de big village.

Wen we don't get the monee you t'ink dat is fonny
An' mak' plaintee sport on de Bottes Sauvages.

But I lole you— dat s true— I don't go on de city

If you geev de fine hoose an' beaucoup d'argent —
I rader be stay me, an' spen' de la las' day me
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DESCRIPTION OF THE ROUTE.

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KENT f.ATE, QUEBEC.

Leav.ngf Quebec by Quebec Central Ferry, the
tourist will enjoy a most charming- view of the
ancient city, so famous in sonj"^ and story.

Rev. Geo. M. Grant, in "Picturesque Canada,"
describes it thus :

" Passing- slowly across from shore to shore,
the striking features of the city and its surroundings
come gradually into view, in a manner doubly en-
chanting if it happens to be a soft, misty summer
morning. At first, the dim huge mass of the rock
and citadel — seemingly one grand fortification — ab-
sorbs the attention, then the details come out one
after another. The firm lines of rampart and bas-
tion, the shelving outlines of the rock, DufFerin
Terrace with its light pavilions, the slope of Moun-
tain Hill, the Grand Battery, the conspicuous pile of
Laval University, the dark, serried mass of houses
clustering along the foot of the rocks, and rising up the gentler incline into which
these fall away, the quays, the boats steaming in and out from their wharves,
all impress the stranger with the most distinctive aspects of Quebec."

Dr. Prosper Bender, of Boston, in his " Old and New Canada," sketches
the scene from the old Chateau St. Louis, which was destroyed by fire in
January, 1834, and" occupied the site of the present
Frontenac Hotel — as follows :

"The commanding views of the St. Lawrence
from the Chateau and environs have been appreci-
ated ever since the earliest days. The French and
English governors, however, inviting the pleasures
of the table, could offer their guests a more exquisite
treat in the contemplation of the noble panorama

visible from that exalted position The

great mountain fortress, the citadel and stronghold
of British power in America, on the right, and the
majestic St Lawrence,. stretching with a magnificent
sweep between its lofty bank, on its seaward course,
formed a splendid spectacUv

" Especially attractive would be Point Levi
heights, covered by an almost unbroken forest.
Their summits, which even ovrrtop C:\pe D'rAtv.ond,

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QUEBEC CENTRAL RAILWAY.

were occupied by Wolfe and his troops in 1759, and
from thence the city was bombarded ; and again in
1775, they were held by Arnold with his New
England volunteers.

" Looking- north, the eye would be fascinated
by the graceful bay formed by the river to meet the
descending waters of the St. Charles, which liere
mingle with its ample tide ; to the north-east a line
of white cottages, then as now, traced the shore to
the great Montmorenci cataract ; and beyond to
Chateau Richer and Ste. Anne, the dwellings of the
more adventurous settlers might be described. Still,
further to the north, forming i remote background,
appeared the mountains, the blue tops merging with
the deeper azure of the sky, while on the bosom of
the great river proudly reposed the beautiful Island
of Orleans, richly wooded from shore to centre. To

all these scenes was attached an historical interest, created by the records of

Ind'an encounters and of French and English hostilities."

Howells, in "A Chance Acquaintance," is so happy in description of Old
Stadacona that we take pleasure in transcribing it here :

'•The sun shone with a warm, yellow light on the Upper Town, with its
girdle of gray wall, and on the red flag that drowsed
above the citadel, and was a friendly lustre on the
tinned roofs of the lower town ; while away oft' to
the south, and east and west, wandered the purple
hills and farm-lit plains in such dewy shadow and
effulgence as would have been enough to make the
heaviest heart glad."

We append a description of the taking .<f the
City of Quebec by Wolfe in 1759, taken from the
recent work by Rev. W. H. Fritchett, entitled
" Deeds that Won the Empire."

"On September 12 Wolfe's plans were com-
plete, iind he issued his final orders. One sentence
in them curiously anticipates Nelson's famous signal
at Trafalgar. ' Officers and men,' wrote Wolfe,
' will remember what their country expects of them.'
.V feint oil BeauporL, lis e miles to the east ot Quebec mom .mi'.m i>k> hk.wk^, yi v.m:^.

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:is evening fell, made Montcalm mass his troops
there ; but it was at a point five miles west of
Quebec the real attack was directed.

' ' At two o'clock at night two lanterns appeared
for a minute in the main top shrouds of the ' Sun-
derland.' It was the signal, and from the fleet, from
the Isle of Orleans, and from Point Levi, the English
boats stole silently out, freighted with some 1700
troops, and converged towards the point in the
black wall of cliffs agreed upon. Wolfe himself was
in the leading boat of the flotilla. . . Suddenly
from the great wall of rock and forest to their left
broke the challenge of a French sentinel — ' Qui
vive ? " A Highland officer of Fraser's regiment,
who spoke French fluently, answered the challenge.
'France.' 'A quel regiment.' ' De la Reine,'
answered the Highlander. As it happened the
French expected a flotilla of provision boats, and ^'''^"^''" cathedral, Quebec
after a little further dialogue, in which the cool Highlander completely deceived
the French sentries, the British were allowed to slip past in the darkness. The
tiny cove was safely reached, the boats stole silently up without a blunder, twenty-
four volunteers from the Light Infantry leaped from their boat and led the way in
single file up the path, that ran like a thread along the face of the cliflf. Wolfe sat
eagerly listening in his boat below. Suddenly from the summit he saw the flash
of the muskets and heard the stern shout which told him his men were up. A
clear, firm order, and the troops sitting silent in the boats leaped ashore, and the
long file of soldiers, like a chain of ants, went up the face of the cliff, Wolfe
amongst the foremost, and formed in order on the plateau, the boats meanwhile
rowing back at speed to bring up the remainder of the troops. Wolfe wAs at last
within Montcalm's guard !

" When the morning of the 13th dawned, the British army, in line of battle,
stood looking down on Quebec. Montcalm quickly heard the news, and came
riding furiously across the St. Charles and past the city to the scene of danger.
He rode, as those who saw him tell, with a fixed look and uttering not a word.
The vigilance of months was rendered worthless by that amazing night escalade.
When he reached the slopes Montcalm saw before him the silent red wall of British
infantry, the Highlanders with waving tartans and wind-blown plumes — all in
battle array. It was not a detachment, but an army !

"The fight lasted fifteen minutes, and might be told in almost as many
v/ords. . . . Wolfe h^ .--elf charged at the head of the Grenadiers, his bright

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uniform making him conspicuous. He was shot in the wrist, wrapped a hand-
kerchief round the wound, and still ran forward. Two other bullets stiuck him —
one, it is said, fired by a British deserter, a sergeant broken by Wolfe for brutality
to a private. ' Don't let the soldiers see me drop,' said Wolfe, as he fell, to an
officer running beside him. An officer of the Grenadiers, a gentleman volunteer,
and a private carried Wolfe to a redoubt near. He refused to allow a surgeon to
be called. 'There is no need,' he said, ' it is all over with me.' Then one of the
little group, casting a look at the smoke-covered battlefield, cried, ' They run ! See
how they run ! ' ' Who run ? ' said the dying Wolfe, like a man roused from sleep.

THE CHAUniERK VALLKV, FROM NKAR liEAlCl-; JCT.

' The enemy, sir,' was the answer. A flash of life came back to Wolfe ; the eager
spirit thrust from it the swoon of death ; he gave a clear, emphatic order for cut-
ting off the enemy's retreat ; then, turning on his side, he added, 'Now God be
praised, I die in peace.' "

We have by this time reached the railway terminus at Levis, opposite Quebec,
and take our seat and berth in one of the elegant Pullman Parlor or Sleeping Cars
which run through without change between Quebec and Boston, Mass., Quebec
and Springfield, Mass.. Quebec and Portland. Me., this being the only railway out

DESCRIPTION OK THK ROUTE.

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of Quebec that gives such
excellent accomodations to
the travelling public. From
the cars we behold Quebec
and the majestic River St.
Lawrence from another
point of view, and we again
have recourse to Howells
to depict it :

" As you leave Quebec,
with its mural crowned and
castled rock, and pass along-
the shores of the stately
river, presently the snv)wy fall of M'ontmoronci, far back in the purple hollow, leaps
perpetual avalanclie into the abyss, and then you are abreast of the Isle of
Orleans, whose low shores, with their expanses of farm land, and their groves
of pine and oak, are still as lovely as when the wild grape festooned the primitive
forests, and won from the easy rapture of old Cartier the name of Isle of Bacchus.

" F"or miles farther down the river, either shore is bright and populous with
the continuous villages of the habitants, each clustering about its slim-spired
church, in its shallow vale by the water's edge, or lifted in more eminent pictur-
esquesness upon some gentle height. The banks, nowhere lofty or abrupt, are
such as in a southern land some majestic river might flow between, wide,
slumbrous, open to all the heaven and the long day till the very set of sun. But
no starry palm glasses its
crest in the clear, cold green
from these low brinks ; the
pale birch, slender and deli-
cately fair, mirrors here the
wintry whiteness of its
boughs, and this is the sad
great river of the awful
North."

The whole scene from
Cape Rouge in the south-
west to Cape Tourment in
the north-east, is indescrib- sr. John's (iAii:, yi kuih-,

QUEBEC CENTRAL RAILWAY.

MONTMORENCI FALLS.

ably grand and beautiful, and one wishes to
linger by the way ; but the train moves on,
and leaving the river we soon reach Harlaka
Junction, the transfer station of the Inter-
colonial Railway, for passengers to or from
Riviere du Loup, Cacouna, and points in the
Maritime Provinces.

Continuing we pass St. Henri Junction,
and several small Canadian villages, cotta-
ges with red-painted roofs, and the ever-
recurring village church with its tin-covered
roof and spire, vary the prospect and en-
hance our delight.

After passing Scotts Station, we enter
the valley of the Chaudiere River, noted for
its gold mines, and the route by which
Benedict Arnold reached Quebec, over one
hundred years ago, after a march of unparalleled hardship and suffering.

At Beauce Junction the Chaudiere River is spanned by a fine bridge, and
we ascend an easy grade of about five miles, until on reaching the summit, the
river and valley lie spread out before us, a panorama of highly cultivated fields,
which, when the golden hues of harvest-time are blended with the magnificent
groundwork of changing green, presents a picture of matchless beauty.

The C iKiudiere Valley Branch of the QfEniic

Central Railway extends up the river to St.

Francis, sixteen miles from Beauce juiuMion, and

by this route the gold mines arc reached. A

typical Frencii country road brings the tra\ oiler

to the pretty village of St.

George. This is the centre of

^^ the gold mining region, aiid a

visit will amply repa}- the

tourist.

Biddins/ farewell to the

DESCRIPTION OK THE ROUTK.

Chaudiere, we soon reach Tring Junction. From this point the Company's new
line extends to Lake Megantic, forming-, in connection with the Canadian Pacific
Railway, the direct short line to St John, N.B., St. Andrews, N.B., all Bay of
Fundy points, Halifax, N.S., etc.

Passing Broughton and Robertson stations, we reach Thetford Mines, a
place of great interest to the mineralogist or naturalist, it being the seat of the
asbestos mining industry of America.

Here the famous Canadian asbestos is mined and is exported to all parts ot
the world. The asbestos is found in seams interspersed through serpentine rock ;

the fibre is exceedingly fine and lies transversely across the fissures of the rock.
The population is about 3,000, nearly all of these people being engaged in mining

operations.

Asbestos has also been found in large quantity, and of the best quality, in

the vicinity of Black Lake, the next

station, which takes its name from

the beautiful little lake lying deep

among the hills, hundreds of feet

below' the railway. These mines

are a short distance up the moun-
tain, and are visible from the pass-
ing train. Valuable chrome iron

ore deposits have lately been found

near Black Lake, and are being

extensively worked.

D' Israeli and Garthby, on the
shore of Lake Aylmer, one of the
most beautiful sheets of water in
this part of Canada, are sites of
extensive lumbering establish-
ments, .IS is also Weedon, the next
station.

Now we are in the wilderness,
where lumber is king. There is
something majestic in these vast rue champlain, c^juebec.

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expanses of forest, and our admiration is further excited by the spirit of enterprise
which is visible in tliis locality. Dr. (irant, in " Picturesque Canada," throws
some liglit on its earliest inhabitants. He informs us :

" Throuj^hout the I'-astcrn Townships there is a robust strain of the early
Massachusetts pioneer. . . . At the epoch of the Great Divide, not a few
loyalists followed the old flaj;-, and settled a little beyond the Province line. Pick-
m^ up the disused axe with a sij^h — often with a secret tear — they once more
hewed out for themselves homes in the forest. . . . They transported to
Canadian soil that old farm-life of New Enijland, which by its quaint ways has
stirred so many deli.t,'^htful fancies in American novelists and poets. Such fire-
lii^ht pictures and winter idyls as Hawthorne and Whittier love to paint were here
to be seen of a winter evertinj^- in every snow-boimd homestead. Among the dusty

heirlooms of these . . . homes
may still be found andirons that
stood on early New Eng-land
hearths. Burned out and fallen to
ashes are the last forestick and
backloj^ ; and so are that brave old
couple who in their g'ray hairs
wandered into the Canadian wilder-
ness, and with trembling,'- hands
hun.i4^ the old crane over a new
hearth."

At Dudswell Junction twenty
minutes is allowed for meals at the
well appointed dining-room opened
here by the Railway Company for
the accommodation of its patrons.
At this point passengers who are
so ticketed will take the Maine
Central Railroad. This is the
shortest and most picturesque route
to the White Mountains, Portland
and Boston. Through parlor and
sleeping cars are run from Quebec
- ™— — via Dudswell Junction to Portland,

through the very heart of the White
NOTRK i>AMK OKs vicToiuKs. Mouutains, and connecting at Fa-

nKHCRirrioN of the koutk.

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byan's or North Conway with throug'h cars for Boston. Continuinj4- our journey
via the Quebec Central after leaving- Dudswell Junction we soon strike the St.
Francis River, inti follow its winding course, crossing the deep ravines and
brawling brooks, which at certain seasons become raging torrents. In the earlier
days of the colony it was used as a highway by French and English, as well as
their Indian allies, to carry desolation and death into the heart of the enemies'
country. The subjoined account of Major Rogers' attack upon the Indian village
of St. Francis, in retaliation for similar outrages, and of his wonderful retreat

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therefrom, which is extracted tiom Francis Parkman's admirable work, " Wolfe and
Montcalm," will enable those fond of historical narratives to form an idea of the
modes of warfare at that time : —

" Major Robert Rogfers, sent in September, 1758, to punish the Abenakis
of St. Francis, had addressed himself to the task with his usual vigor. These
Indians had been settled for about three-quarters of a century on the River St.
Francis, a few miles above the junction with the St. Lawrence. . . . Rogers
set out in whale-boats from C -n Point, and eluding the French armed vessels

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IHK HASILKA, (JlKHKl.

Oil Lake Chaiiiplaiii, came
to Mississi|iioi
liay, al the north eiui of
tlic Lake. Here he hid his
boats, leavintf two frieiully
Indians to watcli them,

. and inform him should
the enemy discover them.
I k then beg-an his march on
St. Francis, when on the
evening;- of the second day
tlie Indians overtook him,
with the startlinjf news that
a party of about 400 French
had found the boats, and
that half of them were on his tracks in hot pursuit. . . . He took tlie hold reso-
lution of outmarching^- his pursuers, pushin}^ straij^^ht for St. Francis, and striking
it before succor could arive. . . . Much of the way was through dense spruce
swamps, with no dry resting place at night. At length the party reached the
River St. Francis, fifteen miles above the town, and, hooking their arms together
for mutual support, forded it with much difficulty. ... At three o'clock in
the morning he led his party to the attack, formed them in a semi-circbj, and burst
in upon the town half an hour before sunrise. . . . About sf^ven o'clock in
the morning, the affair was completely over, in which time two hundred Indians
were killed and twenty women and children taken prisoners. F^nglish scalps by
hundreds were dangling from poles in front of the houses. The town was pillaged
and burned. ... On the side of the rangers. Captain Ogden and six men
were wounded and one Indian killed. The rangers now made all haste southward,
up the St. Francis, subsisting on corn from the Indian town, till near the eastern
borderof Lake Memphremagog
the supply failed and they sep-
arated into small parties. . .
The enemy followed closely,
capturing five of En-
sign Avery's party ; then fell
on a band of about twenty,
and killed or captured
nearly all. The other bands
eluded their pursuers,
and giddy with fatigue and

HKsiuipi ION oi- nil': koiite.

luinjfer I oiled woarily down the wild and
lonely stream (Connecticut) to the appointed
rendezvous at the mouth of the Ainonoosuc."

Passinji' the Basin, a threat caldron-like
place, where the waters of the St. Francis
are whirled and dashed about with violence
before they pursue their onward course to
the St. Lawrence, we arrive at Kast Anj^'us,
the site of the mills of the Royal i'aper
Mills Co. This was hitely a virj^in forest,
offerinj,-^ primeval charms of unusual excel-
lence. Cookshire, live miles distant on the
Canadian Pacific Railway, is reached by a
fine bridjfe spanninj;- the river.

In half an hour we come within view of Lennoxville, and foremost in the
distance appear the towers of Bishop's College, the Oxford of Canada, so well
and favorably known and extensively patronized, not only by the youth of Canada
but by that of the United States.

Proceedinj^-, we reach Sherbrooke in fifteen minutes, where connection is
made \\ith the Boston and Maine Railroad for Newport, Lake Memphremaj^fog,
Boston, Spring-field, New York, etc. ; with the Grand Trunk Railway for points
east and west, and with the Canadian Pacific Railway for the west.

For more extended descriptions of the resorts in the White Mountains of
New Hampshire, Portland, Boston, New York, etc., the publications of the im-
mediate connectinjj lines of the Q.C.R. should be consulted, viz. : the Maine
Central R.R. Co's "Gems of New England," and the Boston and Maine R.R, Go's
"Picturesque New England," "South-Western New Hampshire and Northern
Vermont," "The White Mountains Region," " All along Shore," " New England
Lakes" and "Among the Mountains, Lakes and Streams," copies of wh'. h m: ^'
be had on application to the General Passenger Departments of these t • .s, jr
at the Quebec Central Railway City and District Office, No. 32 St. Louii Stic^t,
Quebec.

(S^ucbcc Central IRailwa^

The Pullman Palace
Car Line Between.*

Boston and Quebec,

Springfield and Quebec,

& Portland and Quebec.

The Only Line Running Solid Trains between Quebec and Boston.

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Tickets for sale at all Railway Tici<et Offices and at Raymond and VVh.<
comb's Ticket Offices, 296 VVashinj,'-ton Street, Boston ; 31 Kast 14th Street, New
York ; 1005 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia ; T. Cook and Son's Ticket Offices,
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Cl,icaj,'-o ; Boston and Maine R. R. City
Ticket Offices and Union Depot, Ho,-i. i ; Henrv Gaze and Son's Ticket Offices,
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