. 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 . 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 mayb
. 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 . 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. TADOUSAC, AT MOUTH OF SAGUENAY RIVER. mountain wilderness. The bed of the river is ioo fathoms lowerthan that of the St. Lawrence. The shores were stripped of theirforests by a great fire, in 1810, but there are large numbers ofhemlock and birch trees in the neighboring glens. The awful maj-
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