of a part of the Saguenay Country. SI 
* Lake St. John is a natural basin or nesetvoir, oceupying the 
most northerly portion of the country alluded to, into which 
radiate, with generally rapid courses, several rivers. ‘The greatest 
breadth of this lake is measured nearly on a due north line from 
’ the post of Metabetchuan, and is equal toa little more than nine- 
teen minutes of latitude*, It isof a rounded form and remark- 
ably shallow. The only outlet to this lake is on the side tothe east- 
ward of south ; and here it may be considered that the Sague- 
nay river commences, which pursuing a direct, violent, danger- 
ous, and contracted course for about twenty-five leagues, sud- 
denly expands by meeting the tide, into a noble and navigable 
river, second only in Canada to the Sr. Lawrence, with whose 
waters it ultimately miogles its own, passing in its course to the 
latter river over a farther distance of 25 Icagues, and through a 
section of rocks from 200 to 1000 feet in altitude. The breadth 
of this river, in the navigable portion of it, varies from half a 
mile to three quarters of a league, and its depth is in most places 
considerable. 
At the upper end of these navigable waters, and whiere the 
tide rises upwards of eighteen feet, the Chicoutimi river enters 
the Saguenay on its right bank from the southward of west. It 
has its source in Lake Kenwangomi, between which and its 
mouth there are five or six portages; it would otherwise be na- 
vignble for batteaux. By this route in canoes Lake St. John is 
reached, the more direct one by the upper waters of (he Sague- 
nay being impracticable. Lake Kenwangomi is about five or 
ix leagues long and so narrow as to resemble a wide river 
rather than alake. Like the Saguenay its course is generally 
from the northward of west. It is separated from avother lake 
called 
' * It was made much more by the Deputy Surveyor General, but as he 
Possessed no other instrument for makiny observations than a theodolite, we 
may ps without arrogance prefer our own, which were mode with an 
excellent sextant of eight inches rae by Gilkerson, and an artificial hori- 
zon, 
