. 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 . 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 number
. 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 . 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-. HA-HA BAY, SAGUENAY RIVER. esty of its unbroken mountain shores, the profound depth of itswaters, the absence of life through many leagues of distance, havemade the Saguenay unique amongst rivers, and it is yearly visitedby thousands of tourists as one of the chief curiosities of the West- THE SAGUENAY. 29 era World. The Saguenay is 142 miles down the St. Lawrencefrom Quebec, and in the ran down the Island of Orleans is passed,and seventy miles below Quebec are the celebrated Falls of Five miles below this again is Grosse Isle, beautiful, butwith sad memories as the resting place of some 6,000 Irish emi-grants. Ninety miles down stream is Murray Bay, a favorite wa-tering-place of the St. Lawrence River, picturesquely situatedamid frowning hills and wild scenery. Riviere du Loup passed, a couple of hours conveys the ex-pectant traveler to Tadousac, at the mouth of the Saguenay ; thescenery of the landward environs is described in the name, whichmeans, in the English language,
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