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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nbase, stand the Government buildings. They aremagnificent structures, costing nearly $4,000,000,the Prince of Wales having laid the corner-stone onhis visit in 1860. They are built of cream-coloredsandstone, with red sandstone and Ohio stone trim-mings, the architecture being Italian Gothic, and theystand upon three sides of a grass-covered quadrangle,and occupy an area of four acres. They include theParliament House, the chief building, and all theDominion Government offices. The former is fourhundred and seventy-two feet long, the other build-ings on the east and west sides of the quadranglebeing somewhat smaller. All are impressive, theirgreat elevation enabling their towers and spires to beseen for many miles. The legislative chambers arerichly furnished, and Queen Victorias portrait is onthe walls of one House, and those of King GeorgeHI. and Queen Charlotte upon the other. The Par-liamentary Library, a handsome polygonal structureof sixteen angles, adjoins. The Governor-General
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D MONTREAL TO QUEBEC. 453 resides in Ricleau Hall, across the Rideau River.From a little pavilion out upon the western edge ofBarrack Hill, high above the Ottawa, there is a longview over the western and northern country, whencethat river comes. To the left is the rolling land ofOntario province, and to the right the distant hillsand looming blue mountains of Quebec, the riverdividing them. Behind the pavilion is the statelyParliament House, its noble Victoria Tower, seenfrom afar, rising two hundred and twenty feet. MONTREAL TO QUEBEC. The broad St. Lawrence River flows one hundredand eighty miles from Montreal to Quebec. A suc-cession of parishes is passed, each wath its loftychurch and presbytere, reproducing the picturesquebuildings of old Normandy and Brittany, with nar-row windows and steep roofs, all covered with shin-ing Avhite tin which the dry air preserves. Littlevillages cluster around the churches, with longstretches of arable lands between. Among a massof wooded islands

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