who go to worship will, of course, pass into the church at once in time 
     
     for the early mass. As they do so they will not. fail to notice that 
     
     nearly every passenger goes direct to the church. One or two sight- 
     
     seers—for the hour is early—will saunter about and enjoy the delight- 
     
     ful air and very foreign surroundings to pass away the time before 
     
     having a country breakfast at one of the numerous hostelries with 
     
     which the neighborhood is provided. 
     
    

    
     The Church of Ste. Anne presents a fine appearance, both 
     
     within and without. The style of architecture is very pleasing, and 
     
     the church stands in the midst of beautiful and well—kept surroundings. 
     
     The interior, with many quaint: decorations and numerous little 
     
     chapels, is especially interesting, while a never-failing attraction for 
     
     all is the huge pile of crutches and other appurtenances of bodily 
     
     suffering or infirmity that have been thrown away by their happy 
     
     owners who, it is stated, were miraculously cured here after making 
     
     their devotions at the shrine of the celebrated Ste. Anne. 
     
    

    
     There is so much that is novel to be seen here indeed it is the 
     
     only place of the kind in the whole continent—so much beauty in the 
     
     surroundings, and so much of the grandeur of nature everywhere, 
     
     that he whose heart is not actively stirred must be too dead and inert 
     
     for the wonderful appeal to move him. 
     
    

    
     \Vith no stretch of the imagination the district may be called 
     
     American Alpine, and almost equal to the Swiss Alps in real interest. 
     
     In fact this is an older civilization, and all the accessories of race, 
     
     customs and manners, and country lend themselves naturally to the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     production of the. strangest effects. \Vhat quaint narrow streets are 
     
     here: and see the overhanging balconies at almost every story of the 
     
     foreign—looking houses that are placed at the foot of the steep hills, 
     
     nestling close to them. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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