SIGHT-SEEING. 39 



CHAPTER III. 



Our stay in Quebec — Starting for Berthier — Berthier — Off for Labrador 

 Bunking in — Island of Orleans — Islands and Channels — Sunday- 

 Other Islands — The Saguenay — Fog again. 



I WILL not attempt to give a description of my feelings at being in 

 this ancient city, nor yet will I give an account, which would be 

 much inferior to many former similar ones, of the sights I saw and 

 the impressions they left upon me ; all this has been done so often by 

 others that the charm of novelty would be lost, and it would prove 

 only a waste of time and words thus to attempt to describe, from 

 a stay of only a few days, that which would need weeks to see 

 properly. I will therefore hasten to say, that the brief stay here 

 was spent in the continual pleasure of evening rambles about town, 

 combined with the necessity and in truth unpleasantness of mak- 

 ing daily purchases for a year's sojourn in a country about which I 

 knew very little ; yet the pleasure, counterbalancing this unpleas- 

 antness, so far exceeded it, that I remember the fonner while forget- 

 ting the latter. The walks about the Terrace, of a calm, clear 

 evening, both before and after the lamps were lighted, displayed 

 the lower city and harbor — the former with its rows of roofs, for 

 they were the only parts of the houses visible, and the latter with its 

 countless masts and water-vehicles from the boat to the man-of-war, 

 of which three lay swinging at the end of their cables just near the 

 channel over against the opposite shore, the whole scene present- 

 ing a silent witness to the industry of the day ; then the view of 

 Point Levis from the walls of the upper city ; and a trip around the 

 city itself, — all these are pleasures to be remembered ; and I shall 



