Excerpt from Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Scenery Reached by the Grand Trunk Railway and Connections: Including Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, Rapids of the St. Lawrence, Montreal, Quebec, and the Mountains of New England

Should the readers of these pages be asked to name the most popular pleasure resorts of America, the first, On which there would doubtless be entire unanimity, would be the great Cataract which attracts visitors, not only from all parts of America, but from over the Atlantic, to gaze on the majestic waterfall, the Sight of which has inspired the pen of many a poet, and the pencil of multitudes of artists, but to which neither pen nor pencil can do more than faint justice, inspiring though the sight of its mighty waters may be. Following Niagara, with greater or less accord in giving them precedence, would come the White Mountains, the Thou sand Islands, and the Rapids of the St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Lake George, the Adirondacks, Portland, the sea side resorts of the Maine coast, or the beautiful lakes and islands of the Muskoka and Parry. Sound districts, which during the past few years have gained a continental reputation. For cities of special interest to summer tourists, those of Canada are deservedly prominent. Toronto, the bustling city by the lake; Ottawa, the Dominion capital; Montreal, its commercial metropolis; quaint old Quebec, with its mediaeval air, its fortified walls and foreign surroundings; these all come to mind, in connection with this subject, as delightful places to visit in a summer tour, either from the'salubrity of their climate, the charm of their situation and surround ings, of the associations connected with their history.

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