24 The Lower St Lawrence. 



Richer, the pretty little Church of Ste. Anne, nestling under 

 the brow of a steep hill, forms one of the most attractive 

 features of the landscape. Hither annually repair the blind, 

 the lame and the halt, to invoke the interposition of the 

 Saint to make them whole. A number of crutches left 

 behind by persons cured, were formerly hung up in the church, 

 but within late years they have been removed to the sacristy. 

 The inside walls are adorned with strange paintings, of a 

 primitive nature, with singular explanations difficult to be 

 understood. The environs are very pleasing ; the neat 

 white cottages ever and anon peering out from a dense 

 covert of evergreens, maple or birch. Many places of no 

 little interest abound in the neighbourhood, such as the Falls 

 .of Ste. Anne, the Fereol Falls, and the Seven Falls. In fact, 

 there is scarcely to be found in the world a bolder or finer 

 ravine than that through which the Ste. Anne finds its way 

 down from the mountains to the St. Lawrence. It is as well 

 or better worth seeing than Niagara, without its renomme'e. 

 From the top of the hill overhanging the village, the view is 

 extensive, taking in the whole northern shore of the Island 

 of Orleans, with Grosse Isle, (the Quarantine Station,) loom- 

 ing up in the distance. 



The Chateau Richer swamps, in spite of the indiscriminate 

 slaughter of birds, still furnish some 3,000 or 4,000 snipe 

 per season. The Bijou marsh, under the Ste. Foy heights, 

 formerly an excellent hunting ground, still furnishes snipe 

 enough to make a good day's sport ; but only in certain states 

 of the weather can it be relied on : when a north-east or 

 east wind blows heavily, birds may be met with abundantly. 

 Woodcock are numerous at C6te-a-Bonhomme, near Charles- 

 bourg, at La Baie du Febvre, Les Salines, and in almost 

 any part of the thick cedar swamps which lie over five miles 

 away from the city. Large game in the vicinity is scarce. 

 A curious incident, however, recently occurred to a sporting 

 member of the Quebec bar, whom the summer vacation had 



