Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-07-21
Sketches OF Travel.

The following sketches are lroih the peh
of Pomeroy boy, who is scarcely six
teen years of age. They are"extracted
from letters written to his father, who has
kindly permitted us to make such use oil
them as we think proper. We doubt not
many of our readers will guess correctly
the authors name, and thank us for the
pleasure afforded them of perusing the
sketches. Should our young friends life
and health be spared, we predict for him
brilliant future.
Cry OF QUEBEC, June 20, 1857.
From the oldest and best fortified city
in America-French in appearance, popu-
lation, and character; English in govern
ment and soldiery-I write this letter.
For the first time in my life am enclosed
within city walls; and while write, the
soldier Of Her Majessyais on gaard'i& oE-'
cry street, at every corner, and at every
city gate. Tonight, 1 stood upon the
famed Citadel, over which | was escorted
bv British soldier. This Citadel is $50
feet above the river, and includes about
forty acres. Here, as the sun was setting,
l could look down upon that noblest of
= riyers-the st. Lawrence-with three hun
dred ships-steamers schooners, vessels
of every size-lying at anchor on its bo-
som, and busy boats plying ceaselessly
here and there, while forty miles OF land,
mountainous, level, dotted with villages,
I were at the same time i'll sight. The great
walls of the citadel first command my
It thoughts, and viewed from this standpoint
r the ships at anch hor become hostile fleets
= the glittering roo offs of tin below, the flash
|. of firearms; the roaring of the mighty
river in it's ceaseless flow, the murmur O
1. the army encamped before the walls; ant
: even the long lines of houses stretched
crookedly upon the plains the advancing
and attacking column.
> have seen since came here the grea
o. Cathedral, the Plains of Abraham (wher
= Wolfe fell) the Lunatic Asylum, and th
en- picturesque Falls of Montmorenci. Shal
1 tell you how l came here?
r., The first place of interest I visited wa
: Niagara. At about half-past s, on tn
., morning of June 25th, we reached Su;
pension Bridge--a magnificent structure
I'd I'd itself worth pilgrimage to see. III
,5et morning fog was so dense, that we coul
- tho Falls from, haro althnnoh the
'r-; laundering reached us plainly from Il
mt, uncertain distance. ~
0-v This inspired me with premontory av
IRE, IRE, of the great creature for the Falls SCENE
%. to live and prepared me somewhat for tt
=: grandeur of the scene was soon to vi
iant ness. Not until came directly upon i
Falls could see them, SO dense was t
ma fog and so thick the foliage which 81
hio;; rounded them; but when at length
10. held them before me, could only sta
). in mute alteration of their sublimity.
There rolled the mighty river, as it h
= rolled for uncounted ages from the U
nnk- daLion of the world-as it is destined S
;boD to roll, through the uncounted ages
,. eternity-no man approaching it save W
hoes, awe, or ever for the space of a moment
isee; 10 &C. the extent of hairs breadth checking
. altering it's appointed course. In Clsssi
merry. times, ii might, perhaps, have been
eptls representative of cruel Nemesis hers
900, The thousand eddies above the Falls, VIII
anT- d%T- the water struggles to turn back, and
y; :; all MI hundred rocks to whichit seems to cl
- as it is whirled along, might have reE
5aiid- sented the struggles of soul to csc
}. All bo- torr;bla oontro1 Rrt tho final and
per- nOi N'i'DiS N''''N'' N' WV '- '
&c; e. II evitable reaching of the Falls, the hcav