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fertility and high culture ; Cape Tourment, a bold promontory 

 lifting its head eighteen hundred feet above the river ; — Murray 

 Bay, a pleasant village on the north shore, now a favorite resort 

 of Canadians, in warm weather, for pleasure and sea bathing. 

 , The view of this place to-day both as we approached the wharf, 

 and as we receded from it to the opposite shore, — girded with 

 an irregular amphitheatre of rugged hills and mountains, receding 

 in the distance, their sloping sides and summits resting in sunlight, 

 With occasional shadows slowly passing over them, — the bay, the 

 village, the lofty heights, stretching far away on the right and left, 

 and some of them especially those of Eboulements, rising to an 

 elevation of 2500 feet — formed a scene of enchanment on which 

 I gazed long, and thought how delighted I should be to linger 

 there a weel£, and ramble amidst such beautiful scenery — Cacouua, 

 on the southern shore, a few miles below Riviere du Loup, much 

 resorted to by health and pleasure seekers, from Montreal and 

 Quebec, I saw in the distance, and thought it seemed delightfully 

 situated, but did not visit. 



" The steamer commonly spends the night both going and 

 returning at Riviere du Loup — the trip from Quebec up the Sa- 

 guenay occuping three days — and from that point, early next 

 morning we passed across the mighty St. Lawrence, there surging 

 like an ocean, and entered the Saguenay, which is at its mouth 

 about one mile wide, and immensely deep. 



" This noble tributary of the St. Lawrence has its origin in a 

 very considerable lake, the St. John, some thirty or forty miles 

 broad, containing about five hundred square miles in surface, 

 away in the interior, north west of Quebec ; and after a course 

 of some 130 miles, in a direction generally a little south of east, 

 falls into the St. Lawrence at Tadousac, about one hundred and 

 twenty miles below Quebec. At this point commenced the chief 

 interest of my excursion. I gazed the more earnestly and thought- 

 fully upon Tadousac, a little village situated just at the en- 

 trance, on a semi-circular terrace, at the top of a beautiful bay, 

 with a sandy beach, hemmed in by mountains of solid rock — be- 

 cause it is one of the oldest settlements in America. Here, it is 



