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Title: A systematic treatise, historical, etiological and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America : as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its population
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852
Subjects: Medical geography Medical climatology
Publisher: Cincinnati : Winthrop B. Smith & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the promontory, to tlie plains of Abraham, and across itto the estuary of the St. Charles; the final descent into which, however, is bya rocky precipice, to which the ramparts of the fortification conform. Theplateau stretches westwardlj- between the two rivers, to the distance of eightor nine miles, when it is interrupted by a deep and broad depression, oneend of which terminates in the trough of the St. Lawrence — the other, inthat of the St. Charles. In ancient times there was, no doubt, a flow ofwater through this depression, from one river to the other, making an islandof what is now a promontory. For four or five miles up the St. Lawrence from Cape Diamond, the riverapproaches so near the base of the j)iecipice, that there is only room for asingle narrow street or road, which, for a portion of the distance, is com-pactly built along — in some parts on one, in others on both sides. In therear of these crowded habitations, are the Clifis, from two to three hundred .S;^ PL.xvn.
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/•!■«;„ Slavelvs Jla,, of Cannil. PART I.) INTERIOR VALLEY OF NORTH AMERICA. 425 feet high, immediately in front of which, the river coves are overspread withrafts of timber, the great commercial staple of Quebec. As this slip of habitable shore passes round Cape Diamond, it widens ; and,at length, admits of another street, to which a third is added, before it reachesthe junction of the St. Charles with the St. Lawrence. The squares, how-ever, are vei-y small; and the streets in general barely wide enough to permitcarriages to pass each other. This is the Lower Town, which has the aspectand reality of a close and grotesque huddle of business and family houses,which the most searching winds must fail to purify, and the filth fromwhich is cast into the river among the adjoining wharves. On turning thehead-land, and entering the valley of the St. Charles, the belt widens intoan alluvial bottom, in which there are many small squares, with widerstreets, a better style of architectur

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