NEPIGON AND SAGUENAY 

 RIVERS. 



A FIVE-MINUTES' COMPARISON'. 



" I "HE Xepigon River has for its source 

 JL a great spring which presses against 

 more than ninety miles of encircling rocks 

 in seeking for a chance to escape, and 

 then pours heaps of canorous water pell- 

 mell through a forty-mile chute straight 

 into diaphanic Lake Superior. If the 

 river stops a bit wherever there is need to 

 touch up the landscape with a lake, or if 

 it runs slowly past engaging scenery, no 

 one cares very much, because it makes up 

 for lost time in a headlong chase over the 

 rocks all of the rest of the way. 



The Saguenay River, with its forty miles 



of tannate water debouching into a dark 



sullen estuary, is the result of a conference 



of long rivers which meet at Lake St. 



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