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magnificence, sublimity, and the naturally har* 

 monized combination of all these prominent 

 features, with the most splendid that has yet 

 been portrayed in Europe, or any other part 

 of the world. Towards Beauport, Charlebourg, 

 and Lorette, the view is diversified with every 

 trait that can render a landscape rich, full, and 

 complete; the foreground shews the River St. 

 Charles meandering for many miles through a 

 rich and fertile valley, embellished by a succes- 

 sion of objects that diff'uses an unrivalled ani- 

 mation over the whole scene. The three vil- 

 lages, with their respective churches, and many 

 handsome detached houses in the vicinity, seated 

 on gently rising eminences, form so many dis- 

 tinct points of view; the intervals between 

 them display many of the most strongly marked 

 specimens of forest scenery, and the surround- 

 ing country every where an appearance of fer- 

 tility and good cultivation upon which the eye 

 of the spectator wanders with ceaseless delight- 

 As the prospect recedes it is still interesting, 

 the land rising in gradation, height over height, 

 having the interval between succeeding ele- 

 vations filled up with primeval forests, until 

 the whole is terminated by a stupendous ridge 

 of mountains, whose lofty forms are dimly seen 

 through the aerial expanse. The sense of vision 

 is gratified to the utmost, and the spectator 



