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in a apot by which a mail comes but once a week and then borne 

 by a man on foot, upon his back, a distance of sixty miles, from 

 Malbaie, on the St. Lawrence, tljrough the woods, overunbridg- 

 ed streams, by a route impracticable for a horse, and along 

 which there is not a human habitation. I skimmed over the wa- 

 ters of the Saguenay, — how delightfully !■ — in a bark canoe, 

 which I had never seen before, propelled by the skilful hands 

 of two kind hearted Indians", who were greatly amused and 

 laughed heartily at my ignorance of birch-bark canoe craft and 

 of life in the bush. I attended a large political gathering at 

 Ohicontimi, the largest by far ever mustered there — I wondered 

 where all the people cam.e from' : — whose object was, the nomi- 

 nation of a member to represent the counties of Chicoutimi and 

 Tadousac in the next Canadian Parliament ; and had the grati- 

 fication to find that a vast majority of all those present were de- 

 cidedly, and with joyous acclamations, in favor ofmy friend and 

 host, David E. Price, Esq., with whose name they made the wel- 

 kin ring, and the bold shores of the Saguenay loudly echo. Ton 

 may form some idea of the importance of the Saguenay, when I 

 eay that there, at Chicoutimi, seventy miles from the St. Law- 

 rence, the tide rises from twelve to twenty-four feet. It is a re- 

 markable river ; remarkable for its depth, and for the bold, rocky, 

 wild scenery on its shores. The depth is vastly greater than 

 that of the St. Lawrence. Anchorage can seldom be obtained, 

 unless in occasional coves, for fifty miles from its mouth, on 

 account of the depth, which according to Capt. Bayfield of the 

 Royal Navy, and deemed of the highest authority, is often nearly 

 nine hundred feet. 



" The shores, presenting a steep and rugged front, composed 

 chiefly of granite, are so abrupt and precipitous that within a few 

 feet of these rugged walls — dark, naked, towering bluffs — the 

 depth of water is nearly as great as in the middle of the channel. 

 The whole formation and aspect give strong evidence that in 

 some far off, bygone age of our earth, in some vast convulsion, 

 the solid strata of the rocks were rent asunder, creating an enor- 

 mous fissure, in whose deep and extended cavity the waters of 



