. 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. the whole line of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway the scenery is highly picturesque. Mountains,lakes and rivers challenge admiration at every turn. Norshould the traveller miss seeing the beautiful falls on theriver Ouiatchouau. Here the waters leap from an altitudeof fifty feet higher than the Falls of Montmorenci, andpresent a glo
. 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. the whole line of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway the scenery is highly picturesque. Mountains,lakes and rivers challenge admiration at every turn. Norshould the traveller miss seeing the beautiful falls on theriver Ouiatchouau. Here the waters leap from an altitudeof fifty feet higher than the Falls of Montmorenci, andpresent a glorious spectacle at all seasons. Of late years the Saguenay river has become a highwa\-of the lumber trade. But there is nothing beautiful to theeye of a naturalist, or pleasing to the taste of a sportsman,in lumbering. Wherever the lumberman builds his shantyor erects his saw mill, the sublime and the beautiful in thesenorthern wilds become vulgarized and degraded. The saw-dust kills the fish, and the smoking chimneys and screechingsaws scare away the wild fowl. Game of all kinds retreatfrom the contamination, with the fear and dislike of thelumberman is in this respect, the miner is infinitely worse,accumulated mold of centuries are burned THE STRIKE. natural for the artificial. But, bad as theUnder his ruthless hand the forest and theIt would be impossible to estimate the destruction wroughtin this manner by prospectors of minerals. Vast regions have thus been devasted, and still the hideous workgoes on. But the spirit of enterprise must answer the economical demands of civilization, and the waters ofthe Saguenay are burdened with great rafts of logs that once were among the monarchs of the wildwood. 105 CHICOLTIMI. A charming American writer gives the following appreciative sketch of this famous village and itsinhabitants :— Chicoutimi is a lumber town like St. Alexis, but the rawest of the new Canadian towns hasfit once a mellow old beauty derived from the invariab
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