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as being the Quarantine Station, where all emigrant vessels 

 are rigorously compelled to stop. To visit this island a 

 written pass must be obtained from the Superintendent or 

 the head Emigration Agent. A small steamer belonging to 

 the Commissioners plies between Quebec and Grosse Isle, 

 and a pass will convey the tourist by it to his destkiation. 



Isle aux Coudres, a pretty well wooded island, where 

 Jacques Cartier anchored on his first voyage, and gave it its 

 present name from the number of filberts growing wild 

 there, and the Island of Orleans, within a few miles of 

 Quebec, styled -by Jacques Cartier the Isle of Bacchus, from 

 the numerous vines upon it, called now from its fertility the 

 Garden of Lower Canada, and celebrated as having been 

 formerly used as a place of banishment, are the last islands 

 we pass, and the traveller once more finds himself in the 

 City of Quebec. 



list of salmon and trout rivers below QUEBEC. 



For the benefit of Sportsmen and Tourists we append a 

 list of the principal Salmon and Trout Rivers below Quebec, 

 with their distance from each other, and such information as 

 may be useful concerning their character and condition. 

 This information is trustworthy. The system of protection 

 adopted by the Commissioner of Crown Lands is not only 

 greatly increasing the number of the salmon, but also en- 

 abling them to attain to a larger size : — 



From Quebec to Murray Bay is . . . 78 miles 



(The river furnishes a few salmon and many fine trout) 



From Murray Bay to the Saguenay is . . . 44 " 



(The fishing here as well as in the Marguerito has been described. ) 



River Escoumain 23 " 



(Between it and the Bagnenay ore two branches of the Bergeromie, both furnish- 

 ing a few salmon and many trout. ) 



