The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-20

Little OF the pOllsut0 FL TlSt0u tUuRuc' AAe
cabins of the boats Of the Riehelieu Line
are elegant land so is the whole boat and
are occupied by elegantly dressed ladies,
Nth homely faces and enormous big feet.
You know you are not in "the States
There was, however, one petit lady on
board, with
PRETTY SMILING FACE;
the only one to be seen in hundred,
leaning on the arm Of an English looking
gentlemen. She smiled every time she
looked at my companion, which made him
stroke his pet side whiskers with all the
complacence of Naval Cadet. As good
fortune would have it they took seat di-
rectly opposite him in the cabin. She
looked straight at those side whiskers; a
smile wreathed the dimples all about the
prettiest of mouths the lips moved. This
was too much for Louie. He crossed the
cabin. He hesitated, and suddenly sought
his state room and was not seen again till
the boat landed at Quebec. Meeting the
lady little while afterward we discovered
that she was cross. eyed Poor Louie =
those smiles were not for him at all. Such
is Gfel
The memory of the thermometer at 100
and over in the shade yanishes right hast
ily as the boat starts out from Montreal.
We were determined to stay out on deck,
but it was too cold, even with overcoats,
and then the cabins we're 80 much pleas
anter. During. the month of July the
mean temperature is from 65 ? to CD = land
with a strong breeze one naturally prefers
to remain indoors, especially at night, on
the fast boats.
The first point of interest after leav-
ing Montreal is William Henry, or, to
call it by its best known name, "Sorel, y
situated at the junction of the Richie
lieu river, the outlet of Lake Champlain,
and the St. Lawrence. 1t is forty tive
miles from Montreal, and the first stop
ping place for the steamers en- route for
Quebec. Here land large numbers of sec
ondclass passengers; baggage and freight
is rushed off into densely packed crowd
there is one continual jabber; there is 8
good deal of what sounds in English like
sack aree-e," which we mistrust is some
"cuss' word more second class baggage
is loaded and the boat is off. The remain
der of our journey is made in the night
At daylight you are
AT QUEBEC,
the ancient capital, as the old resident
ers love to call it, You are at the feet Of
the only walled city ia America, and one
Involuntary goes back to the events Of
1929, when the British and the Colonial
forces wrested the city from the French,
and finally restored it in 1852, and then
its capture by Wolfe in 1859. Right here
as you stand on the deck of the steamer
one is taken back two hundred years
Above you is the citadel of Cape Diamond
the most formidable fortress in America
with its yards of solid masonry. and the
solid walls running around the hills, and
the buildings of the old tower, as it is call
ed, nesting close under the port holes of
the citadel and within the massive walls of
the city. You leave the steamer and
make your way up the winding roads. steep
and difficult as they are, being the very
identical Indian paths used by Charlevoix,
in 1908, when he first set the tent poles of
his lodges on the summit of the lofty cape
You enter a quaint, curious drowsy city.
1t must be healthy from its location, and
withal a cheap place to live, if you can eat
what the natives love so WE'LL Do you like
an old elevated fort, with ugly loop holes,
grim looking guns, piles of shot and shell :;
and steep and narrow winding streets, full
OF cabs, calleches, and persistent driv-
ers, who seem TO know you've come
to see the sights Such is the old town,
all walled in. having five gateways, only
one Of the gates being now left standing.
Some hundred feet below is the lower town,
built on narrow strip of land which runs
at the base of the cape, and of the high
ground which contains the upper town;
and the suburbs of St Rooach's and St
Johns extend along the river st. Charles
to the Plains Of Abraham. The form of
the whole city is that Of triangle, the
PLAINS OF ABRAHAM
forming the base and the rivers
St Lawrence and St. Charles the
sides. In the angle, elevated hundreds
OF feet, is the walled citadel, and around it
the old town, and, as seen from distance,
appears to be separated from the suburbs
or new city like two different cities, the |
latter being much the larger and Boosting |
cheaper rents and lower taxes. There is
much to be seen here, much that we must
hurry over tor want of time, as it takes
more space to even mention all one wants
to see. There Is Durham Palace, the site
OF the old Castle OF St Louis, burned in
1881; the public gardens, with the elegant
monument erected to the memory of Wolfe
and Montcalm, in 1927 the citadel, em-
bracing over forty acres, with its tortifca-
tons the old Roman Catholic Cathedral,
with Its paintings by the old masters,
building with no pretentions to architec-
tural beauty but one that will seat 1000
people. Then there are other churches of
note, and some ten or twelve Protestant
churches, the oldest being the English
Cathedral, built In 1904, and will seat be-
tween 1900 and 1900 people. Then there
are the hospitals, asylums, converts public
buildings, barracks, palaces and villas. ali
OF which have their attractions. Yon can
see tho house where Montgomery was laid
OUT after being found in his snowy shroud
at Pres.de-ville. Dec. 3lst, HIS; or the
place where
-'.-o WOLFE, THE BRITISH HERO.
tell and the well from which the water
was obtained TO moisten his dying lips: or
Wolffeid, and the rugged path up the 81,
Dennisburn," by which the Highlauders
and English gained footing in 1879 and
planted the revolution of the New World |
and ron can stand on the very snn, ,rLnro