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tvaters of considerable expanse, lying in 4S^ 

 £0' of north latitude, and IT 30' of west lon- 

 gitude, receiving many large rivers that flow 

 from the north and north-west, from an im- 

 mense distance in the interior, of which the 

 Piekouagamis, the Sable River, and the Pari- 

 boaca are the principal ones. At its eastern 

 extremity two large streams, one called the 

 Great Discharge, and the other the Kinogami 

 Land River, issue from it ; which, after flowing 

 about fifty-seven miles and encompassing a 

 tract of land of the mean breadth of twelve 

 miles, unite their waters, and become the irre- 

 sistible Saguenay ; from which point it conti- 

 nues its course in an easterly direction, for 

 about one hundred miles down to the St. Law- 

 rence. The banks of this river throughout its 

 course are very rocky, and immensely high, 

 varying from one hundred and seventy even to 

 three hundred and forty yards above the stream : 

 its current is broad, deep, and uncommonly ve- 

 hement ; in «ome places, where precipices inter- 

 vene, there are falls from fifty to sixty feet in 

 height, down which the whole volume of the 

 stream rushes with indescribable fury and tre- 

 mendous noise. The general breadth of the 

 river is from two miles and a half to three 

 miles, but at its mouth this distance is con- 

 tracted to about one mile. The depth of this 



