Over The Verdant Groves, Glimpses Of The White Cottages
Of Levi And New Liverpool Occasionally Catch The Eye.
This rustic
landscape, pleasant at all times, becomes strikingly picturesque, at the
"fall of the leaf" - when the rainbow-tinted foliage is, lit up by a
mellow, autumnal sun.
Under this favored aspect it was our happiness to
view it in September, 1880.
"Bright yellow, red and orange
The leaves came down in hosts;
The trees are Indian princes -
But soon they'll turn to ghosts."
In 1762, this broad, wild domain was owned by Lt.-Gov. Hector Theophilus
Cramahe of Quebec, and according to an entry in the Diary of Judge Henry,
he apparently was still the proprietor in 1775, at the time of the
blockade of Quebec. In 1785, the land passed by purchase to one of
Fraser's Highlanders, Capt. Cameron. It was from 1841 to 1875, the
cherished abode of a cultured English gentleman, the late John Porter, the
able secretary and treasurer of the Quebec Turnpike Trust. It did one good
to see the courteous old bachelor, cosily seated in his ample, well
selected library, surrounded by a few congenial friends, the toils of the
day over - the dust of St. Peter Street shaken off. Mr. Porter was a fair
type of the well-informed English country gentleman, well read in Debrett,
with a pedigree reaching as far back as William the Norman. At his demise,
he bequeathed this splendid farm to the son of a valued old friend.
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