THE LAURENTIDES PARK 



bain road, the only highway that crosses 

 the mountains, is three thousand feet 

 above the sea at a point some thirty-five 

 miles from Baie St. Paul, while the sur- 

 rounding hills might be credited with 

 another fifteen hundred feet. It seems 

 to be within bounds to place the altitude 

 of a series of mountain-tops in the 

 country of Charlevoix at from four 

 thousand to four thousand five hundred 

 feet, to assign a height of two thousand 

 five hundred feet to the interior plateau, 

 and to say that most of the rivers rise 

 about three thousand feet above the sea. 

 As these assertions are not in accord 

 with prevailing impressions, it would be 

 interesting to have a more accurate de- 

 termination than can be made with a 

 pocket barometer. 



The outlines of these ancient hills 

 have been flattened and rounded by the 

 age-long grinding and chiselling of 

 glaciers, which have also built up huge 

 moraines, and strewn the country with 



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