Identifier: americapicturesq02cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ent. The lumber trade makes the first andgreatest impression ; landing among boards and saw-dust, Avalking amid timber piles and over woodensidewalks, with slabs, blocks and planks everywherein endless profusion, the rushing waters filled withfloating logs and sawdust, busy saws running, planing-machines screeching, the canals carrying lumbercargoes, the rivers lined with acres of board piles—an idea is got of Avhat the lumber trade of the Ottawavalley is. The timber is almost all white and yellowpine. Alongside the Chaudiere Falls at the westernverge of the town are clustered the great sawmills,while capacious slides shoot the logs down, Avhicli areto be floated farther along to the St. Lawrence.There are also large flour-mills and other factoriesgetting power from this cataract. The Chaudiere, or the Cauldron, is a remark-able cataract, and the Indians were so terrified by it,that to propitiate its evil genius we are told theyusually threw in a little tobacco before traversing the
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TSE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY THE DOMINION CAPITAL. 451 portage around it. The rapids begin about sixmiles above, terminating in this great boiling caul-dron with a sheer descent of forty feet, which is ascurious as it is grand. Owing to the peculiar forma-tion of the enclosing rocks, all the Avaters of thebroad river are converged into a sort of basin abouttwo hundred feet wide, plunging in with vast com-motion and showers of spray. Eiforts have beenmade to sound this strange cauldron, but the leadhas not found bottom at three hundred feet depth.The narrowness of the passage between the enclos-ing rocky walls, just below the falls, has enabled abridge to be built across, connecting Ottawa with thesuburb of Hull. Here is given an admirable viewof the foaming, descending waters, clouds of spray,and at times gorgeous rainbows, flanked by timberpiles and sawmills, sending out rushing streams ofwater and sawdust into the river below. Near by achain of eight massive locks brings the Rideau Ca

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