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about half a mile in length, through which it pours its 

 formidable torrent with most picturesque impetuosity. 



A white cottage on the western bank of the river imme- 

 diately adjoining the romantic-looking bridge, the habi- 

 tation of Louis Dery, is the chief resort of fishermen during 

 the season ; but there is another on the hill on the eastern 

 bank, inhabited by a worthy inhabitant named Trepannier, 

 which, if its situation is not quite so romantic, is com- 

 pensated for by its greater airiness ; and I can fearlessly 

 assert that any one who sets up his abode in it will have 

 nothing to complain of on the score of the cleanliness, 

 civility, and honesty of the inmates. Even fishing tackle is 

 there safe from depredation, and that I have never been 

 able to say of any other house I have been domiciled in 

 any part of the world ; and wonderful to say, Trepannier is 

 somewhat of a poacher, a rude but very successful fisherman, 

 and an excellent guide and gaffman. Soj^er ought to have 

 made a pilgrimage to Jacques Cartier to learn Madame Tre- 

 pannier's mode of cooking wild pigeons with French beans. 



The beautiful glen through which this river flows, is 

 bounded by high, nay lofty banks, whose slope affords soil 

 for a great variety of umbrageous forest trees ; with here 

 and there a tall pine rising above the thick mass of 

 foliage. The mountain ash grows in abundance. Part of 

 the rock for twenty or thirty yards from the river is 

 interspersed with dwarf trees and shrubs, and along its 

 surface innumerable little streamlets of the purest and 



