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The Halcyon in Canada. 



that this section is the garden 

 of Quebec. Beyond it rose 

 the mountains. Our eyes 

 looked wistfully toward them, 

 for we had decided to pene- 

 trate the Canadian woods in 

 that direction. 



One hundred and twenty- 

 five miles from Quebec, as 

 the loon flies, almost due north, 

 over unbroken spruce forests, 

 lies Lake St. John, the cradle 

 of the terrible Saguenay. On 

 the map, it looks like a great 

 cuttle-fish, with its numerous arms and tentacula reaching out 

 in all directions into the wilds. It is a large, oval body of 

 water, thirty miles in its greatest diameter. The season here, owing 

 to a sharp northern sweep of the isothermal lines, is two or three 

 weeks earlier than at Quebec. The soil is warm and fertile, and 

 there is a thrifty, growing settlement here, with valuable agricultural 



THE CITADEL AT QUEBEC. 



