Three hundred miles northeast of Ottawa, Montreal River, a small but noisy stream that is the outlet of a chain of lakes far up in the British possessions, flows into the Ottawa River, and twenty miles above its mouth are Montreal Rapids, a picture of which was obtained from a local photographer at Ottawa, and is here reproduced as affording an idea of the scenery in that great northern and almost unexplored region. [Illustration: TOBOGGAN SLIDE AT MONTREAL.] From Ottawa the trip was continued by boat one hundred miles to Montreal. This route affords a view of Lake St. Louis, Nun’s Island, and Lachine Rapids, the most dangerous part of St. Lawrence River, yet it is every day traversed by pleasure steamers, of which a traveler has thus graphically written: “In the descent of these rapids we are wrought to a feverish degree of excitement, exceeding that produced in the passage of the Long Sault. It is an intense sensation, and though perfectly safe, is terrible to the faint-hearted, exhilarating to the brave. Opposite Lachine is the quaint Indian village of Caughnawago, where still reside descendants of the once-powerful Iroquois Nation. The immense steel bridge spanning the St. Lawrence at this point is justly considered one of the engineering triumphs of the century. It was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway, is about a mile long, with two channel spans of 408 feet, and lofty enough to allow free passage to the largest steamers. From this bridge a fine view is obtained of the rapids, villages on either shore, loftiest structures in Montreal, and the distant mountains.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: CHAUDIERE FALLS, NEAR OTTAWA, CANADA, IN WINTER.—These celebrated falls are at the junction of the Rideau and Ottawa Rivers, in the immediate vicinity of the city of Ottawa. The volume of water as it thunders over swirling precipice is almost as great as that of Niagara, and the power displayed is wonderful to behold. Beautiful, grand and amazing as these falls are in summer, it is during the winter that their sublimest magnificence is impressed upon the visitor, when the Ice King has frozen them into a vision of ravishing splendor. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: MONTMORENCI FALLS, NEAR QUEBEC.]