Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — SCENE OF NATURAL BEAUTY [ARTICLE]

SCENE OF NATURAL BEAUTY

Setting of Montmorency Falls Near Quebec Resembles the Imaginative Conception of an Artist. I?.,:. • The impressiveness of any bit of scenery depends not on how large ilt looks. Thus there are few persons who would estimate the width of the Grand canyon at more than a tenth of what it actually is. Niagara falls, when seen at a is not in> pressive, and when you are close to it you cannot get a complete view. It is for this reason that many of the smaller bits of scenery really give more pleasure to persons who have an , eye for natural beauty. Montmorency i falls, on the river of that name a few : miles from Quebec, is an excellent j ample of this fact. It consists of a stream about 40 feet wide dropping somewhat more than 200 feet over a sheer cliff just above the juncture of the Montmorency and the St. Lawrence. This cliff forms part of a high amphitheater of rock, its jagged outlines crowned by a forest of juniper and spruce, and opening upon the wide blue expanse of the St. Lawrence. Above the falls the stream is known as the Fairy river because of the weird beauty of its dark waters, which wind between sheer granite walls festooned with very old, gnarled trees. It seems more like some artist’s imaginative conception than a work of nature.