44 The Lower St. Lawrence. 



career of the Ghoul of the St. Lawrence (who after all was 

 nothing but a diabolical old Iroquois squaw.) Riviere Ouelle, 

 a station on the Grand Trunk, takes its name from Madame 

 Houel, the wife of a French Controleur General, who was 

 captured by Indians with her little son on their return trip 

 from Quebec in the 17th century. Here are also visible 

 three curious and inexplicable snow-shoe tracks deeply in- 

 crusted in the solid rock on the beach. Another singular 

 appearance was till recently visible- there, though now almost 

 effaced by the action of the tide ; it was the marks of the 

 anterior part of two human feet and hands on the rocks. 

 These alone have afforded important aid to the legends of 

 the coast. Similar appearances are stated to exist on the 

 Jacques Cartier River, near Quebec. 



Passing by Hare Island, a small rocky island of pictur- 

 esque appearance, and Seal' Rocks, alluded to as affording 

 such excellent shooting, we come to Kamouraska, 90 miles 

 from Quebec, a fine flourishing village, containing a gaol 

 and court house ; it is pleasantly situated, and was formerly 

 a resort for sea-bathing, but is now eclipsed by other more 

 favored localities. 



Malbaie, opposite to it, on the north side of the river, 

 is another large village with no striking features or attrac- 

 tions except its sea-bathing. 



L'Islet, forty-eight miles from Quebec, a large village, 

 and station of the Grand Trunk, doing an extensive business 

 in lumber, is the next place of any importance. Here there 

 is an excellent Government wharf stretching out into the 

 river. 



All these places on the river, but more especially on the 

 south shore, afford numerous specimens of sea-shells, and 

 will furnish the Conchologist with several varieties peculiar 

 to the Gulf. 



Grosse Isle, twenty-nine miles below Quebec, is a small 

 island of about two and a half miles in length, but well-known 



