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only be set within a certain distance, and cannot extend 

 across the entire stream. In Lower Canada the net fish- 

 ing terminates on the first day of August, and the rod 

 fishing on the fifteenth of September, and spearing, the 

 most cruel, unprofitable and injurious mode of destruc- 

 tion, is forbidden altogether. 



About one hundred and twenty miles below Quebec 

 the wondrous Saguenay pours its dark waters and 

 fierce current into the placid bosom of the St. Lawrence. 

 It is one of the natural wonders of our still new and 

 scarcely explored country. Hills rise a thousand feet 

 sheer up, and its waters descend a thousand feet deep 

 at their base. The St. Lawrence, at its mouth, is 

 only some thirty feet deep, but the bottom suddenly 

 descends at the entrance to the Saguenay, and becomes 

 from five hundred to a thousand feet in depth. The 

 breadth of the Saguenay is so great that the grandeur 

 of the mountains is lost to the eye, and the scenery is 

 remarkable more for ruggedness than beauty. At the 

 mouth of this river was the first station of the Hudson 

 Bay Company, a little village called TadoUsac, which is 

 pronounced with the emphasis on the last syllable, and in 

 that village stands the mission church of the Jesuits, the 

 oldest in the country 



Close to Tadousac, and almost adjoining at the back, 

 is a still smaller village called L'Anse a I'Eau, and 

 although great ships no longer lie at Tadousac, and the 

 houses are fast falling to decay, and the good men of the 

 olden days have long gone their last journey, and the trap- 

 pers are never more seen around the famous station, and 

 the glory of the Hudson Bay Company has departed, 



