THE LAUEENTIDES PARK 



not guess that the Murray descends 

 through a still grander and more beau- 

 tiful gorge on its wild way to the sea. A 

 mere handful of people have thought it 

 worth while to push back forty miles 

 from Murray Bay to see the tremendous 

 rock walls of this canyon, the stupen- 

 dous and unscalable precipices where 

 the Decharge de la Mine d' Argent 

 falls hundreds of feet from the rim, like 

 silver poured from a crucible, pauses 

 and falls again. 



As to the heights of these mountains 

 one searches in vain for authentic 

 figures. Eboulements and Ste. Anne, 

 both near the shore of the St. Lawrence, 

 rise over two thousand five hundred 

 feet, and one peak in the valley of the 

 Gouffre is credited with a height of 

 three thousand two hundred feet, but 

 these elevations are greatly exceeded as 

 one journeys inland. Observations with 

 several aneroids show that the St. Ur- 



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