. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . ndthe Falls, 50 feet wide and 250feet high. A solid mass i^(water falls, like a gossamer veilof beauty, into the stream belowand disappears in the St. Law- THE SAGUENA V. 27 rence; small streams on each side, parted strands
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . ndthe Falls, 50 feet wide and 250feet high. A solid mass i^(water falls, like a gossamer veilof beauty, into the stream belowand disappears in the St. Law- THE SAGUENA V. 27 rence; small streams on each side, parted strands of light, followthe rocky seams, in a delightful tangle, down the chasm. No driveof the same distance, anywhere in the world, affords so muchpleasure to the tourist as does this eight-mile drive to the famousFalls of Montmorency. The charming and romantic Falls ofLorette should also be visited. Of them a writer says: TheLorette cascades would give fame and fortune to any spot inEngland or France. The Falls of Montmorency may now be reached by railroad, the(Quebec, Montmorency & Charlevoix Ry having recently opened road also extends to St. Anne de Beaupre, an interestingspot for tourists, both on account of its scenic attractions and thefact that many thousand pilgrims visit it every year, attracted bythe miraculous cures attributed to La Bonne St. WOLFE S MONUMENT, SAGUBJVAY, From Quebec, by the palatial steamers of the Richelieu & On-tario Navigation Co., which run in connection with the GrandTrunk, some most enchanting trips on the lower St. Lawrence maybe made. The Saguenay is unquestionably one of the most remarkablerivers on the continent; it is the outlet of the great Lake St. John, 28 SUMMER RESORTS. into which eleven rivers fall. The Saguenay is not properly ariver. It is a tremendous chasm, like that of the Jordan Valleyand the Dead Sea, cleft for sixty miles through the heart of a
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