2-752-452 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Falls of Montmorency', 1874. Waterfall on the Montmorency River in Quebec, Canada. '...the river Montmorency shimmers in perfect calm...The stream is divided here by the island of Orleans, a low-lying reach of farm-land, with groves of pine and oak embowering romantic little farm-houses and cottages'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]