. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. m the deck, near Cape Trinity. The result isthus described by one of the party: For the space of half a minute or so after the discharge there was a ilead silence, and then, as if thereport and concussion were hurled back upon the decks, the echoes camedown crash upon crash. It seemed as if the rocks and cr
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. m the deck, near Cape Trinity. The result isthus described by one of the party: For the space of half a minute or so after the discharge there was a ilead silence, and then, as if thereport and concussion were hurled back upon the decks, the echoes camedown crash upon crash. It seemed as if the rocks and crags had allsprung into life under the tremendous din, and as if each was firing68-pounders full upon us, in sharp, crashing volleys, till at last theygrew hoarser and hoarser in their anger, and retreated, bellowing sknvly,carrying the tale of invaded solitude from hill to hill, till all the distantmountains seemed to moan and groan at the intrusion. The scenery of the Lake St. John Region is peculiarly impress-ive, and when to this attraction is added the abundance of fish andgame, it is not to be wondered at that the locality is every year becom-ing more widely known, and more extensively visited by tourists,especially by those who desire to studv nature in her wilder iiin,id>.. gjD^JHiilfefe^ ■slioDting of the wild rapids of the Grande Discharge, a distance of;i)nie forty miles, to the head of steamboat navigation on the Saguenay,interrupted by a few portages around cascades which are too perilousto be passed in boats. But we must take a regretful leave of the Saguenay, with the feel-ing that but faint justice can be done to its wonderful attractions. Ithas been tersely described by a writer as a region of primeval grand-eur, where art has done nothing and nature everything ; where, at asingle bound civilization is left behind, and nature stands in unadornedmajesty; where Alps on Alps arise; where, over depths unfathomable,through mountain gorges, the steamer ploughs th
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