"We Dare Not Tell You To Yield To Fear, But Be Prudent.
Though
prudence may be akin to fear, you never more required all your wits
about you.
It is very unlikely you will ever select this road again,
though it should be a short cut. Such are some of the dangerous
streets in their main features. There are thoroughfares, on the other
hand, to which fancy lends imaginary charms; the street in which you
live, for instance. You think it better, more agreeable. Each object
it contains becomes familiar, nay cherished by you - the houses, their
doors, their gables. The very air seems more genial. A fellowship
springs up between you and your threshold - your land. You get to
believe they know you as you know them - softening influences - sweet
emanations of 'Home.'" - Translation.
THE UPPER TOWN.
The Upper Town in 1608, with its grand oaks, its walnut trees, its
majestic elms, when it formed part of the primeval forest, must have been
a locality abounding in game. If Champlain, his brother-in-law, Boulle, as
well as his other friends of the Lower Town, [9] had been less eager in
hunting other inhabitants of the forest infinitely more dreaded (the
Iroquois), instead of simply making mention of the foxes which prowled
about the residency (l'abitation), they would have noted down some
of the hunting raids which were probably made on the wooded declivities of
Cape Diamond and in the thickets of the Coteau Sainte Genevieve, more
especially when scurvy or the dearth of provisions rendered indispensable
the use of fresh meats.
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