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Eoman Cardinal, in June, 1836, was attended with a 

 most imposing pageant and general illumination. 



Of late years several important manufactories have 

 sprung up, especially in the populous suburb of St. 

 Koch ; the city derives material benefit from the 

 convergence here of several lines of railway, connecting 

 with the transatlantic steamships, and making it a 

 depot of immigration and of freighting ; the erection of 

 the projected bridge across the St. Lawrence at or a 

 little higher up than the city, whilst supplying the 

 missing link in that great national work, the Canadian 

 Pacific railway, will remove the disadvantage inflicted 

 by the winter Levi crossing ; seven or more lines of rail- 

 way will then land their passengers and freight in the 

 city ; the place will have ceased to be a cul-de-sac dur- 

 ing six months out of the twelve. 



Quebec is built nea.rly in the form of a triangle, 

 bounded by the two rivers, and the Piains of Abraham. 

 It is divided into the Upper Town and Lower Town, 

 the former standing on an enwalled and strongly forti- 

 fied bluff three hundred and fifty feet high, while the 

 latter is built on the contracted and reclaimed strands 

 between the cliffs and the river. Hence its name of the 

 " Walled City of the North." Several of the streets by 

 their names, Grande Altte, Couillard, La Montague, 

 etc., recal the narrow paths of early days, when M. de 

 Puiseaux, reached, in 1640, his Sillery home, at Pointe- 

 a-Puiseaux, under the leafy shades of the intervening 

 Sillery woods, through the Grande AlUe, the main 

 forest avenue ; or when le Sieur Couillard, about 

 1618, located his lares, near the spot where Hope Gate 

 stood, or where Champlain, in 1623, had the path 

 enlarged, which led from the lower to the upper town — 

 a la Montague. This explains why these very ancient 

 highways are narrow— occasionally crooked — often very 

 steep ; peculiarities which help to make it the most 

 quaint, picturesque and mediaeval looking city in Amer- 

 ica — beautiful and healthy, withal. "Take mountain 



