The Latuf of the IVinanishe 



breakers and seething whirlpools. These 

 are all private waters, and are for the most 

 part controlled by Mr. Griffith of Quebec, 

 whose lodge, a mile higher up, commands 

 a splendid view of the outlet and of mag- 

 nificent sunsets. Below the Grande Chute 

 the Grande Decharge, widening out to a 

 breadth of nearly two miles, finds its way 

 through beautifully wooded islands by a 

 network of channels. 



This part of the river is most uncertain 

 as to fishing, as there are few permanent 

 eddies suited to the winanishe, and it is 

 filled with pike. It is, however, very pic- 

 turesque; and the stillness, broken only by 

 the murmur of one of the innumerable 

 rapids which look small till the canoe is 

 in them, is a restful change from the tur- 

 moil of the Grande Chute. Then, just 

 below Mistook, the only little settlement 

 on the shore opposite Alma Island, come 

 the Cedar Rapids, a sudden plunge of the 

 river over a trap dike extending between 

 a chain of islands from shore to shore ; 

 then a swift rush of the water for a couple 

 of miles down to the head of He Maligne. 

 Any one in search of exciting canoeing 

 will find it in this run, which ends in a 

 sharp turn into a cove just above the falls. 

 A two-mile portage, which is simply a 



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