. Guide with map of Lower St. Lawrence and Saguanay Rivers. bove the St. Lawrence and at whose base nestlesthe village of Ste-Anne de Beaupre, which the most of us willhave already visited. Passing the extreme end of the Island ofOrleans, we point toward the north shore, Reaux Island is onour right, and just beyond can be seen Grosse Island the quar-antine station, where, in the summer of 1847, more than 7,000immigrants died of cholera and fever. In the farther distanceCranes Island can be dimly seen, its rugged shores seeming toform an integral part of the mainland. On Cranes Island, iftime h
. Guide with map of Lower St. Lawrence and Saguanay Rivers. bove the St. Lawrence and at whose base nestlesthe village of Ste-Anne de Beaupre, which the most of us willhave already visited. Passing the extreme end of the Island ofOrleans, we point toward the north shore, Reaux Island is onour right, and just beyond can be seen Grosse Island the quar-antine station, where, in the summer of 1847, more than 7,000immigrants died of cholera and fever. In the farther distanceCranes Island can be dimly seen, its rugged shores seeming toform an integral part of the mainland. On Cranes Island, iftime has not completely effaced them, are the ruins of historicChateau le Grande, wherein the days of old Quebec,a jealous wife, kept her toohandsome husband a pris-oner hermit until his death,when she herself returned toFranceand assumed the north shorewe have a splendid view ofthe ruggedness of the scen-ery of this magnificent riverand the mighty Laurentiansthat fringe the horizon. Be-yond it Capes Xourmente, weaving Home-spun— 8 Guide of Lower St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers Rouge, Gribanne, Millard and Grande Pointe flit by us in rapidsuccession, and, then at the foot of a mountain 2,640 feet inheight, we catch a glimpse of the picturesque little village ofSt. Frangois-Xavier. Soon Baie St. Paul our first port of call is reached and we areafforded an opportunity to view the habitant in his native environ-ment. Baie St. Paul, its church steeples conspicously prominentlies in a hollow between two great promiontories at the base ofone of which, a mile or so from the village, we dock. In thisbay there is splendid salmon fishing. Under way once more we proceed to Eboulements, passingIsle aux Coudres (the Island of Ravens), especially interestinggeologically, from having been separated from the mainland byvolcanic action many years ago. The island was further reducedin 1640 by a terrible earthquake that, according to availablehistorical records, overtu
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