OLD MURRAY BAY 



urc trip.' Sunday excursions a century 

 ago! — but our later knowledge of the river 

 navigation moves one to the charitable con- 

 jecture that she was due upon the Satur- 

 day! Mr. Andrews having served me this 

 good turn, I refuse to quit his company in 

 uncivil haste. 



His narrative discloses how singularly 

 little was known of the country ^to the north 

 of the River and Gulph of St. Lawrence, 

 commonly called the King's Posts'. The 

 instructions committed to him under the 

 authority of the 'Knights, Citizens and Bur- 

 gesses of Lower Canada in Provincial Par- 

 liament assembled' must have embraced the 

 finding of a volcano, for Andrews declares 

 that if one exists he will do his 'best to dis- 

 cover it', and later he expresses the opinion 

 that: — 'it must be beyond the Ste. Anne, in 

 a range of high Mountains to the Westward 

 of it'. This persistent tradition, perhaps 

 not utterly dead even now, may be a distant 

 echo of those months of terror in 1663 when 

 the earth shook and the heavens dropped. 



Andrews landed at the Grand Debarque- 

 ment, to-day called Le Port; then, as now, 

 the hard for schooners. He lodged at Chap- 

 eron's inn which stands yet, if I mistake 

 not, on the rocky point near the mouth of 

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