Author: Robert Sellar

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781332802852

Excerpt from The Tragedy of Quebec: The Expulsion of Its Protestant Farmers The eighteenth century was near ing its end before the solitude of that vast region which lies south of the parishes that border the St. Lawrence, between the Chaudiere and the Richelieu, was disturbed by aught save the cry of the water fowl as it winged its way over lake Memphremagog, or the howl of the wolf from its rocky den on the slopes of Mount Tom. The old world had been rent by wars, dy nasties had risen, ourished, and disappeared, and yet that be witching expanse of forest, lake, and mountain, threaded by rivers beside which the Thames and Clyde are but streamlets, continu ed undisturbed, its beauty and pos sibilities of wealth alike unknown. From a sky as clear as that of Italy the sun bathed this region of ro mantic beauty summer after sum mer, autumn dyed its mantle of forest in hues of gold and scarlet, and winter mantled it in ice and snow, but all this loveliness for uncounted centuries was unseen by man, save when some lone Indian in search of game strayed from his fellows. It must be a baf ing thought to the dweller of the Old World that a stretch of country larger and'fairer than that for which kings fought and vast arm ies perished remained unowned and unoccupied down to a period al most within the memory of a few yet living. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."