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Title: The Maritime provinces: a handbook for travellers. A guide to the chief cities, coasts, and islands of the Maritime provinces of Canada ... with the gulf and river of St. Lawrence to Quebec and Montreal; also, Newfoundland and the Labrador coast. With four maps and four plans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897, ed Osgood, James R., & Co., pub
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Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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thing and fishing, driving, and balls which extend into the smallhours. The beach is good, ami the river-views from the heights are oftamed beauty. There is a pretty lake back among the hills, where manytrout are found. The great specialties of Cacouna are its pure cool air and brilliant north-ern scenery. It is sometimes found too cold, even in August, duringrainy Aveather, for the American visitors, who then hurry away in crowds.The peninsula of Cacouna is a remarkable mass of rock, nearly 400 ft.high, which is connected with the mainland by a low isthmus. Its nameAvas given by the Indians, in allusion to its form, and signifies the tur-tle. The village is French, and has 40Q inhabitants and 3 churches.4i M. distant is the populous parish of St. Arscnc, and S M. S. is St.Jlodesie. From Riviere du Loup the steamer runs across to the Saguenay River,passing within 3-4 M. of Cacouna, and running between the Brandy Pots(1.) and Red Island (see page 252). The Saguenay River, see Route 73.
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THE SAGUENAY EIVER. Route73. 297 73. The Sagnenay River. steamers leave Quebec for Chicoutimi, the farthest port on the Saguenay, onTuesday and Friday, at 7 A. M. (see page 291); and for Ha Ha Bay on Wednesday,Thursday, and Saturday. They reach Tadousac by nightfall, and start on the re-turn from Chicoutimi the next morning. Distances. — Quebec to Tadousac, 134 M.; Tadousac to Riviere St. Marguerite,15 ; St. Louis Islets, 19 ; Riviere aux Canards, 23; Little Saguenay River, 27 ; St.Johns Bay, 32 ; Eternity Bay, 41; Trinity Bay, 48 ; Cape Rouge, 56 ; Cape East,63; Cape West, 65; St. Alphonse, 72 ; St. Fulgence, 95; Chicoutimi, 100. Thisitinerary is based on that of the steamship company and is not correct, but will beuseful in marking approximations to the relative distances between the points onthe river. There is no other table of distances accessible. Imray-s Sailing Direc-tions (precise authority) says that it is 65 M. from the St. Lawrence to Chicoutimi. The ** Saguenay River is

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