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August heats, steam down and take a briny dip at Murray 

 Bay, or Kakouna, or Tadousac. Do you fancy Canadian 

 Highlands? — seek the pleasant shades of Cap a I'Aigle, 

 or Pointe a Pie. Are you inclined for French gaiety and 

 killing toilets ? — steer for Kakouna. Do you prefer the 

 grand monde, the fashionable place par excellence f — then try 

 Tadousac.' Each and all of these localities we will en- 

 deavour to lay alike before you, with their associations, their 

 scenery, their attractions, and their inducements for the 

 traveller to linger on his journey, and enjoy what he might 

 otherwise pass by, in search of some wider known and less 

 gifted place. Every traveller in Canada from Baron La 

 Hontan, who "preferred the forests of Canada to the 

 Pyr6n^es of France," to the Hon. A. Murray, Charlevoix, • 

 Lanman, Peter Kalm, Isaac Weld, Heriot, Silliman, Rameau, 

 Augustus Sala, have united in pronouncing the landscape of 

 Lower Canada so majestic, so wild, so captivating withal, as 

 to vie in beauty with the most picturesque portions of the 

 Old or New World ; and though we have no ivied ruins 

 dating back to mediaeval times, no moated castle or battle- 

 mented tower, — though we have no Chatsworths, nor 

 Blenheims, nor Woburn Abbeys, nor Arundel Castles, 

 embellishing the landscape with their architectural beauty, — 

 yet in Lower Canada especially, most of our nooks and 

 corners are hallowed by associations destined to remain 

 ever memorable amongst the inhabitants of its soil. 



In the days of yore the Summer Tourist through the 

 Country had no easy means of access to the quiet nooks in 

 the " back country," or the many pleasant resorts our rail- 

 ways have opened out. The old hackneyed journey was as 



