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a green tapestry hanging on the embankments, which rise some- 

 times a heio-ht of 1100 feet.^ 



As we approach Ha ! ha ! Bay the shores becoms lower, and the 

 great pine forests which form the wealth of this region are seen. 

 At Chicoutimi, where the river ceases to be navio'able for large 

 vessels, it spreads into a wide basin which receives a cascade of 

 forty feet in height. Michaux reached this spot on the 11th of 

 August. 



Chicoutimi, which signifies deep ivater, was then a little vill&ge 

 at the junction of the river of this name with the Saguenay. Upon 

 a point which projects into the basin was a small chapel about 

 twenty -five feet long, built by the Jesuits, and having within a single 

 altar and a few pictures, while outside was seen the tomb of Pere 

 Coquart, the last of the Jesuits, who, with the Pere Labrosse, had 

 first preached the Gospel to the natives. Michaux, in the manu- 

 script notes which he left to his son, thus speaks of this chapel : 

 " On my way to Hudson's Bay I reached in the month of August 

 the Lake Chicoutimi, near the 48th degree of latitude, and there 

 found the church erected in 1728 (as indicated by the date placed 

 over the principal entrance) by the Jesuit fathers for the natives- 

 of the vicinity. This building, made of squared timbers of white 

 cedar (Thuja occidentalis) placed upon each other, was in good 

 preservation ; and although these beams had never been covered 

 either within or without, the wood at the depth of half a line was 

 not the least altered after a lapse of more than sixty years. "f This- 

 little chapel was still standing in 1857. 



The route to Lake St. John was then much more difficult than 

 that which is now followed. Michaux went up the river Chicou- 

 timi in a canoe and then passed through Lake Kinogomi, from 

 which,by a portage of half a mile, he reached Lake Kinogomichiche ; 

 this discharges itself by a slow and tortuous stream into Belle 

 River, which falls into Lake St. John, which our traveller reached 

 after a journey of six days from Chicoutimi, gathering the follow- 

 ing plants in his way : 



Scirpus sjoathaceus, Michx. ; Swertia cornicidata, Linn.; Pri- 

 nos verticUlatus, Linn. ; Gentiana jyneumonantlie, Linn. ; Drosera 

 TOtundi folia , Linn.; Triglochiii^palustre, Linn.; Ju7icus JiuitanSj. 

 Michx. ; Mltella dLjyhi/Ila, Linn. ; Sparganium natans, Michx. ; 



* Flora Boreali-Amerlcana, in saxosis ad amnem Saguenay, vol. i, 

 fol. 3. vol. ii. fol. 246. 



t Michaux fils, Arbres Forestiers, vol. iii, p. 34. 



