MT. LOGAN TRIP, 1923 
u 
Doubtless most of you know more or less about the Alps, the Canadian 
Hookies, the Yosemite, and other far distant resorts that are popular 
with tourists. Perhpas-a-few of you have an intimate personal acquain¬ 
tance with some such remote regions and most of you probably know 
soemthing about them, at least in a general way, from printed descriptions 
or from having heard illustrated lectures on them by people who have 
been there. I think many of us are apt to have abetter general knowledge 
/ 
of much advertised remote localities than we have a&efei some that are 
comparatively near, but rarely or never visited by the ow&m&y tourist. 
,One such little known locality that I have had an opportunity of visiting 
five times within 20 years is the Gaspd Peninsula in eastern Canada. 
This peninsula lies on the south side of the St. Lawrence river, 
just across from the Labrador peninsula. It is bounded on the east by 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence and on the south by the Bale des Chaleurs and 
New Brunswick. At its southwestern corner the peninsula is flinly 50 
miles, as the crow flies, from the northeastern corner of the state of 
Maine—-a distance of but a few miles more than from Providence to 
Boston. Consequently it is not remote; nor is it inaccessible. 
The peninsula includes the &hree most eastern counties of the 
Province of Quebec teab-44-e on the south side of the St. Lawrence river- 
viz.; Matane, ^onaventure, and GaspS. It comprises between 12.000 and 
13,000 square miles—an area about equal to that of Mass, and Conn, 
combined. It is armroxiraatelv 180 miles long: and 90 miles wide in its 
widest 
Much of the north shorelis composed of tagged river canyons, steep 
slopes as* sheer cliffs which occasionally rise to a height of 1000 or 
1200 feet, including the talus slope at the base. These heights are 
correlated with cold and deep waters, occasionally more than 1000 ft 
