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which affect the beholder as he looks up and beholds this 

 awful display of the Creator's power. 



In a nook among these mighty mountains near Tadousac, 

 stands a small nest of houses, together with some mills and 

 storehouses, belonging to Mr. Price, the extensive, enter- 

 prising, and respected merchant of Quebec, under whose 

 fostering care more than one prosperous and flourishing 

 village has started up in this hitherto almost unknown and 

 unvisitecl part of Canada. Here we were frankly and 

 hospitably received by Mr. William Price, who having 

 kindly received our notice that we proposed having divine 

 service on board our yacht on the following day, and 

 undertaken to give notice of it to the persons under his 

 authority, placed some boats at the disposal of our party, 

 and accompanied us on our evening excursion a mile or 

 two up the Saguenay for the purpose of trying our hands 

 at sea-trout fishing, which sport we enjoyed in very great 

 perfection for two or three hours with one drawback 

 only, that we were persecuted beyond description by mus- 

 quitoes and black flies. Some idea may be entertained of 

 the revolution caused in " the human face divine " by the 

 assaults of these venomous insects from the narration of an 

 event which occurred on the evening I write of. 



There were four of our party in one boat, which were 

 too many to permit us all to fish in comfort ; one therefore 

 volunteered to go on shore and take his chance in a deep 

 bay where the trout were rising merrily. We placed him 



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