22 The Lower St. Lawre^tce. 



are little bowers of birch-bark, and boats and canoes anchored 

 around, close by a veritable wigwam. This is the home of 

 the Hon. L. Panet, whom the Lorette Huron Indians have 

 elected as their honorary chief 



There is a remarkable ec*ho at Lake St. Charles, which, 

 unlike other echoes, tarries some few seconds before repeat- 

 ing the sound uttered ; and this in its turn is re-echoed from 

 another quarter, as though the nymph of the Lake were 

 summoning the dryads of the neighbouring woods to join in 

 the sport. 



THE LOWER ST. LAWRE:NrCE. 



Thirty-six miles below Quebec lies a small group of islands, 

 of which the largest — Crane Island — is only six, and Goose 

 Island four and a half miles in length. They are united by 

 a belt of low land, covered with most luxuriant hay, and are 

 the resort of myriads of geese, ducks and teal ; and not only 

 in the fall and spring do they congregate there, but they 

 make it also their breeding place. The high tides of spring 

 and fall wash the foot of the rising ground on which the 

 manor house of these islands stands, and at such times the 

 game, such as ring-plovers, curlews, sea-snipe, sand-pipers, 

 &c., alight within a few rods of the house. To the north of' 

 Crane Island lies a smaller one, which the tide covers daily ; 

 that is the Dune, well known to Canadian Chasseurs as abound- 

 ing with Canadian geese, {outardes) snow-geese and ducks. 

 " Every day in May and September," says Le Moine, " you 

 may see a flock of snow-geese and outardes feeding there, 

 some three thousand in number, beyond a rifle's range, or 

 winging their rapid, noisy, wedge-like flight towards the 

 muddy St. Joachim flats opposite." On the long sand-bar 



