The Picturesque St. Lawrence

Clifton Johnson (1865–1940) was a portrait painter who combined words, photographs, and drawings to paint pictures of whatever happened to be the object of his attention; and in this book, with 49 illustrations and over 53,000 words, Mr. Johnson describes the St. Lawrence River, starting with its outflow from Lake Ontario and continuing to the Gulf of St. Lawrence where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean.  Since his journey down the river happened in 1909 and 1910, the reader is treated to both a travelogue and a trip back in time.

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