Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie











































































































































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Never shall I forget that short voyage from Grosse Isle to Quebec.
I love to recall, after the lapse of - Page 26
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Never Shall I Forget That Short Voyage From Grosse Isle To Quebec. I Love To Recall, After The Lapse Of So Many Years, Every Object That Awoke In My Breast Emotions Of Astonishment And Delight. What Wonderful Combinations Of Beauty, And Grandeur, And Power, At Every Winding Of That Noble River!

How the mind expands with the sublimity of the spectacle, and soars upward in gratitude and adoration to the Author of all being, to thank Him for having made this lower world so wondrously fair - a living temple, heaven-arched, and capable of receiving the homage of all worshippers.

Every perception of my mind became absorbed into the one sense of seeing, when, upon rounding Point Levi, we cast anchor before Quebec. What a scene! - Can the world produce such another? Edinburgh had been the beau ideal to me of all that was beautiful in Nature - a vision of the northern Highlands had haunted my dreams across the Atlantic; but all these past recollections faded before the present of Quebec.

Nature has lavished all her grandest elements to form this astonishing panorama. There frowns the cloud-capped mountain, and below, the cataract foams and thunders; wood, and rock, and river combine to lend their aid in making the picture perfect, and worthy of its Divine Originator.

The precipitous bank upon which the city lies piled, reflected in the still deep waters at its base, greatly enhances the romantic beauty of the situation. The mellow and serene glow of the autumnal day harmonised so perfectly with the solemn grandeur of the scene around me, and sank so silently and deeply into my soul, that my spirit fell prostrate before it, and I melted involuntarily into tears.

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