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... twenty-seventh of May, he left the island of St. Helen, opposite Montreal, with four Frenchmen, one of whom was Nicolas de Vignau, and one Indian, in two small canoes. They passed the swift current at St. Ann's, crossed the Lake of Two Mountains, and advanced up the Ottawa till the rapids of Carillon and the Long Saut checked their course. So dense and tangled was the forest, that they were forced to remain in the bed of the river, trailing their canoes along the bank with cords, or pushing them by main force up the current. Champlain's foot slipped; he fell in the rapids, two boulders, against ...

— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... lake, and by the more formidable works known as Fort Frederick or Crown Point—to give the better known English name—on a peninsula at the narrows towards the south. The latter was the most advanced post of the French until they built Fort Ticonderoga or Carillon on a high, rocky promontory at the head of Lake Sacrement, afterwards called Lake George by General Johnson—a sheet of water always famed for its picturesque charms. At the foot of this lake, associated with so many memorable ...

— Canada • J. G. Bourinot

... in amazement. "Then there is some hope after all! There is, there must be! Beauclerk! He is engaged to Agnes Carillon, of ...

— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes

... mystical retrospect, beginning in vein of prologue: over mysterious murmuring strings, long sustained notes of the reed and horn in octave descent are mingled with a soft carillon of horns and trumpets in the call of the Scherzo. In broad swing a free fantasy rises to a loud refrain (in the brass) of the ...

— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp

Words linked to "Carillon" : music, chime, bell, gong, change ringing, carillon playing, bell ringing