. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. appropriate watcher on Roberval of olden days and his men sailing pastand vanishing into the mysterious shadow-land beyond, never to appear again, than as a witness of thefrolics of the holidaj-makers at its feet in these unheroic days. This is indeed the land where the battle of the gods and the giants took place, where mountains werepiled on
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. appropriate watcher on Roberval of olden days and his men sailing pastand vanishing into the mysterious shadow-land beyond, never to appear again, than as a witness of thefrolics of the holidaj-makers at its feet in these unheroic days. This is indeed the land where the battle of the gods and the giants took place, where mountains werepiled on mountains, when the impious sons of earth attempted to scale the heavens. But, perhaps the fabledbattle was a tradition from primeval men who witnessed the tremendous upheavals of geological times, andleft it to be interpreted by the poet who said : 1 sang of the moon and sang of the daedal earth,of the gods and giants warsAnd of life, and death, and birth, But though the entrance to the Saguenay region be gloomy and forbidding, it leads to a glorious land ofpromise beyond. To Ha ! Ha ! Bay, with its hotels and crowds of summer visitors. From the earliest times to the present day, the Saguenay country has been famous as the best hunting. A DAY S FISHING IN THE SAGIKNAV DIbTRICT. and fishing region in all North America. Sportsmen seldom stay over for any length of time at Ha ! Ha ! journey on, up the Saguenay, to Lake St. John and its affluents sixty miles north, the paradise of wild-wood sport. Many tourists going thither reach their destination via the Quebec and Lake St. John beautiful and fertile region is fast filling up with settlers under the liberal policy carried on bysuccessive provincial administrations. Still, every fisherman who has tried his luck there returns to tempt other enthusiasts with the relation of most wonderful fishstories. Lake St. John is the habitat of a land-locked salmonwho rejoices in the euphonious Indian name of Wa-
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