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Sunday a day of rest, but to assemble and meet together, 

 to " set forth His most worthy praise, to hear His most 

 holy Word, and to ask those things that be requisite and 

 necessary, not only for the body but the soul," from Him 

 who u giveth us life and breath and all things." 



In the month of July 1846, a little cutter yacht, having 

 on board the Commissioner, the Baron, the Captain, myself, 

 and a crew of three men, a boy and two servants, staggered 

 across the river St. Lawrence, from the Riviere du Loup 

 to Tadousac at the mouth of the mighty Saguenay, the 

 largest and most remarkable of the many streams which 

 add to its volume. 



The meaning of the word Tadousac is said to be " the 

 mouth of the sack ; " from what language derived, or from 

 what circumstances bestowed upon this spot, I have not 

 been able to discover. It is a very beautiful bay on the 

 east side of the Saguenay, from which it is separated by a 

 bold headland ; in shape it is a deep crescent, has a lofty shore 

 of rock and a beach of beautiful sand. The salmon in their 

 annual emigration from the north to their spawning beds 

 in the tributaries of the St. Lawrence, turn into this bay 

 in great numbers, and used to be taken in hundreds by 

 seine nets, for the drawing of which its smooth beach 

 affords every facility. From hence, when the wind 

 answered, they were despatched in schooners to the Quebec 

 market, from which circumstance arises the question 

 which is invariably put to the fisherman who visits the 



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