Produced by Marcia Brooks, Ross Cooling and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) HISTORIC HANDBOOK OF THE NORTHERN TOUR. [Illustration: WOLFE. Aged 32.] HISTORIC HANDBOOK OF THE NORTHERN TOUR. LAKES GEORGE AND CHAMPLAIN; NIAGARA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC. BY FRANCIS PARKMAN. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1899. _Copyright, 1885_, By Francis Parkman. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. This book is a group of narratives of the most striking events of our colonial history connected with the principal points of interest to the tourist visiting Canada and the northern borders of the United States. The narratives are drawn, with the addition of explanatory passages, from "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," "Pioneers of France in the New World," "The Jesuits in North America," "Count Frontenac," and "Montcalm and Wolfe." Boston, 1 April, 1885. CONTENTS. LAKE GEORGE AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN. PAGE Discovery of Lake Champlain 3 Discovery of Lake George 9 Battle of Lake George 16 A Winter Raid 40 Siege and Massacre of Fort William Henry 45 Battle of Ticonderoga 65 A Legend of Ticonderoga 86 NIAGARA. Siege of Fort Niagara 93 Massacre of the Devil's Hole 98 MONTREAL. The Birth of Montreal 105 QUEBEC. Infancy of Quebec 123 A Military Mission 128 Massachusetts Attacks Quebec 134 The Heights of Abraham 154 LAKE GEORGE AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN. DISCOVERY OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN. This beautiful lake owes its name to Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec. In 1609, long before the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, he joined a band of Huron and Algonquin warriors on an expedition against their enemies, the Iroquois, since known as the Five Nations of New York. While gratifying his own love of adventure, he expected to make important geographical discoveries. After a grand war dance at the infant settlement of Quebec, the allies set out together. Champlain was in a boat, carrying, besides himself, eleven men, chief among whom were one Marais and a pilot named La Routte, all armed with the arquebuse, a species of firearm shorter than the musket, and therefore better fitted for the woods.