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into Gasp6 Basin, but they all afford superior trout fishing. 

 To Americans wishing to reach this section of country we 

 would say, take the route that will bring you to Boston before 

 half-past seven A.M., for at that hour the boat leaves for St. 

 John, New Brunswick. If you are too late, you may by cars 

 intercept the same boat at Portland, or on its arrival there 

 take steamer to Calais, and thence by rail to Woodstock — 

 where stages connect by the Grand Portage road with Riviere 

 du Loup, and so with all the Lower St. Lawrence. The 

 Boston boat reaches St. John in about 32 hours — fare six 

 dollars, meals extra — consequently extra good. 



EASTERN TOWNSHIPS. 



Leaving Point L^vi for a trip through the Eastern Town- 

 ships, the traveller may look forward to enjoying as beautiful 

 a tract of country as perhaps any on the continent, both with 

 regard to mountain and lake scenery, beautiful rivers and 

 fertile valleys. The mountains, wooded generally from base 

 to summit, repose in majesty ; and as the mists, with which 

 their summits are not unfrequently crowned, withdraw them- 

 selves in folds along their sides, they reveal still more of the 

 beautiful and sublime. Chasms, ravines, and precipices are 

 there, and among their solitudes sublimity reigns. Beautiful 

 lakes lie scatteied over the face of the country, bordered here 

 by gentle slopes, there by precipitous cliffs ; cultivated fields 

 and wide-spread pastures, with woods interspersed ; valleys 

 and plains adorned with farm houses, single or in groups, 

 and beautiful villages. The rocks of the Eastern Townships, 

 geologically speaking, are confined to the two lower series of 

 the Palceozoic era. These in Western Canada, from their 



