Belleville: the County Seat of Hastings County, p. 3

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City Building. Corby Library Post Office. County Court House Lakes, with, the exception of Port Arthur, can rival Belleville's tonnage. Travellers passing either by water or rail cannot have any idea of what a beautiful residential city exists here. Being one of the oldest cities in Canada, its citizens have always taken great pride in their residences. For a sojourn of any length Belleville offers the best possible advantages. Its healthfulness is widely known. The climate is exceptionally salubrious and the atmosphere rare and pure. There is a remarkable freedom from pulmonary troubles in the city. Asthmatics and those suffering from hay fever'find the air of the district restful and decidedly beneficial. In the vicinity there are mineral springs, which have been tested by experts and found to possess remarkable curative powers. Beside the Eden-like beauty of the city itself the suburban drives are unequalled anywhere. The old Dundas or Kingston road .which is famed as the original stage route between Hamilton and Montreal in the days previous to the building of the G. T. R., passes along the bay shore and through the city. It is considered one of the most beautiful coaching thoroughfares in Canada. The beautiful calm Quinte, with its long reaches of low, pastoral land and mirror-like body of water, is always in sight, although the landscape is varied and beautiful. Taken 'altogether Beautiful Belleville and the Bay of Quinte have advantages for the tourist, the health and sight seeker which it would take volumes to tell. It is far beyond the capacity of a brief article of this kind to ennumerate all these. One thing, however, is

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