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only be set within a certain distance, and cannot extend 
across the entire stream. In Lower Canada the net fish- 
ing terminates on the first day of Angnst, and the rod 
fishing on the fifteenth of September, and spearing, the 
most cruel, unprofitable and injurious mode of destruc- 
tion, is forbidden altogether. 
About one hundred and twenty miles below Quebec 
the wondrous Saguenay pours its dark waters and 
fierce current into the placid bosom of the St. Lawrence. 
It is one of the natural wonders of our still new and 
scarcely explored country. Hills rise a thousand feet 
sheer up, and its waters descend a thousand feet deep 
at their base. The St. Lawrence, at its mouth, is 
only some thirty feet deep, but the bottom suddenly 
descends at the entrance to the Saguenay, and becomes 
from five hundred to a thousand feet in depth. The 
breadth of the Saguenay is so great that the grandeur 
of the mountains is lost to the eye, and the scenery is 
remarkable more for ruggedness than beauty. At the 
mouth of this river was the first station of the Hudson 
Bay Company, a little village called Tadousac, which is 
pronounced with the emphasis on the last syllable, and in 
that village stands the mission church of the Jesuits, the 
oldest in the country 
Close to Tadousac, and almost adjoining at the back, 
is a still smaller village called L'Anse a I'Eau, and 
although great ships no longer lie at Tadousac, and the 
houses are fast falling to decay, and the good men of the 
olden days have long gone their last journey, and the trap- 
pers are never more seen around the famous station, and 
the glory of the Hudson Bay' Company has departed, 
