The Land of the Winanishe 



large tributaries, are from 200 to 250 

 miles long, and are over a mile wide at 

 their mouths, which are close together at 

 the north-western end of the lake. The 

 Ashuapmouchouan, the smallest of the 

 three, is sometimes erroneously marked on 

 maps as the upper part of the Saguenay; 

 but this name really belongs to none of 

 them. This immense volume of water, 

 which raises the lake at times twenty-five 

 feet, has but one outlet, divided for the first 

 eight miles into two branches by Alma 

 Island, at the foot of which the Grande 

 Decharge, after a circuit of twelve miles 

 in mighty rapids, unites with the Petite 

 Decharge straighter, and held in check 

 by dams for the safe passage of timber - 

 to form La Decharge du Lac St. Jean, 

 a mighty stream, which, after a turbulent 

 course of some thirty miles more, wrenches 

 asunder the syenite at Les Terres Rom- 

 pues, seven miles above Chicoutimi, and 

 expanding into fjord-like reaches, becomes 

 the Saguenay. 



Near the lake the scenery is tame ; but 

 beyond the boundaries of the prehistoric 

 sea, which probably discharged by the St. 

 Maurice instead of by the Saguenay, there 

 is a land of mountain and forest, lake and 

 river. The ranges are low, except up the 

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