The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-01-24

the Cataract It inspires none O
the terrOrs Of Niagara, but the seen,
cry IS on much grander scale.
The tide which here rises ffteer
feet was out, and we could slmos4
cross the channel on the rocks.
Wolfe had observed this fact more
than hundred years ago and it was
across the channel at this point
that after vain efforts to reach the
enemy from above, he led his army
to the first attack and was severely
repulsed from the opposite bluffs
with a loss of 400 killed.
ltwas from Montmorency that
Wolfe shortly after this event, Civ
ing way to his naturally desponding
disposition sent those gloomy des-
patches to Pitt which filed England
with apprehension and dismsx. and
called forth much criticism on what
considered the injudicious selection
of SO young an officer forso vast and
perilous an enterprise.
These apprehensions we're ex-
changed, a few davs later for the
widest rejoicings throughout Eng
land and the American colonies.
mingled with the deepest sorrow for
the fall Of him who had attested with
his blood the wisdom Of the choice
which had been made by the in
stinctive genius of the great Pre-
mier.
The drive to and from Montmo-
reney is one never to be forgotten.
Canadian roads macademized with
hard blue limestone, never dusty,
never muddy, are the finest on the
Continent.
The return drive commands for
the whole distance a fine view of
Quebec,whose tin covered domes and
roofs sloping gradually from the
lower to the upper town as seen from
this road, rejecting food of sun
light or moonlight, give it the name
Of the Silver City.
THE FRENCH CATHEDRAL AND CITADEL
On our return to the city we first
visited the French Cathedral and
the Chapel Of Laval University ad-
joining which is said to contain the
finest collection of religious paint
ings in America, all of them more
than 200 years old. The Cathedrsls.
the high walled Converts, the priests
and nuns are relatively more numer-
GUS than at Montreal, as q larger pro-
portion of the population is Roman
Catholic. The French Cathedral is
the most magnificent. It pales new
ertheless before that Of the Jesufts
at Montreal. It's paintings, however,
are superior; one of the Crucifxion
is by Vandyke.
No one neglects to visit the Cita-
del. The grim fortress which crowns
the highest point of Cape Diamond,
is reached from the upper town, by
narrow winding roadway fanked on
either side by high walls Of solid
masonry.
Atthe iron gateway a soldier is
detached as a guide to the tourists
that are constantly arriving.
The Citadel is now garrisoned by
Canadian troops. No British sol
dier treads the soil of Canada. She
has been given over by the mother
country to her own resources.
The huge pyramids of bombs and
cannon shot, the hundreds of can
non scattered over an area Of 40
acres, the vast piles of masonry, the
gathered work of three centuries,
and above all the commanding posi-
tion of the Citadel, sweeping from
its inaccessible ramparts, the whole
vast landscape, until the vision is
lost among the purple mountains of
the distant horizon, richly entitle
the fortress of Quebec to be called
the Gibraltar of America. No attack
has been made upon it. however,
since the assault ofMontgomery and
Arnold, which by its very audacity
proved nearly successful