"When Within Five Miles Of Quebec, Coming Down The River, There
Commences A Succession Of Wharfs, To Which The Timber, Which Forms So
Great A Trade Here, Is Floated Down Stream, And From Which It Is Loaded
Into Vessels For Europe And Other Parts Of The World.
The stock of
timber balks floating in the basins about these wharfs and landings is
now so great, that for three miles the margin of the river looks like
one great raft.
We passed two immense rafts of timber, floating down
the stream, to be stowed here, one of which was some 400 yards long,
had eighteen sails set, and four wooden houses complete, erected upon
it.
"Quebec is admirably placed as a fortified city, and also as a point
for commerce. It stands on a high point of land opposite the Isle of
Orleans, which here divides the St. Lawrence into two large streams.
The citadel overlooks the Bay of Quebec, the Isle of Orleans, and the
high banks of the St. Lawrence. The view from it is most extensive, in
whichever direction the eye wanders. Forty miles of the St. Lawrence
are seen from it. The white wooden houses on the hill-sides, and the
broad fields of yellow grain, set off the dark wood; and the river - its
bay, fronting the point of land on which the city is placed, covered
with sails and glistening in the sun - mellows the landscape most
exquisitely. Quebec, as seen from the river, too, has a fine commanding
aspect.
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