The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-20
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Below Quebec saguenay River-Lake 81
John-Cape Eternity Trinity Rock
Tho Tsblsax-0f For the Noun.
talns and Trout Fishing!
OTTAWA HOTEL, MONTREAL, July IA, 1874.


1t would never do to leave this country
without visiting the watering places Of the
Canadas-Malbaie, Murray Bay and
Caconna. Malbaie is about 80 miles below
Quebec, and is the first place the boat stops
at-a very pleasant place for those who
wish quiet retreat, with plenty of coo
breezes, plenty of fishing, where many fam
lilies spend the heated months. Across
the river, about twenty miles, you take a
drive of some ten miles to the noted Ca
Gonna, with its magnificent bluffs sloping
down to the bay, while here and there, in
the shady retreats, are some fine buildings
the principal of which is your hotel with
all the modern Improvements of billiard
rooms, bowling alleys, hot and cold baths,
pleasant, we'll furnished rooms, sail boats,
fishing boats, sand in fact everything the
visitor can ask. But don trlfe away your
time at these places They are for the
fashionable, for there are grander sights
that you are looking for along
THE SAGLENAf XIV Elk,
the deep. water river of the continent, that
winds through the wild forests for the
first half of its course to Ha Ha Bay, and
for sixty miles, to the ST. Lawrence,it seems
to cut through the everlasting rocks, which
seem to overhang your boat almost ready
to fall with their millions of tons of solid
granite. The Captain stops the boat at
points of most interest and you are never
tired of looking at the awful granduer all
around. From the St. Lawrence to Tia
Ha Bay is as far as you can 60, unless you
have plenty of time. The scenery is won
derful and unsurpassed in beauty and
grapduer. This alone is worth more than
all else You will see on your Canadian trip.
This river is wonderful affair, and is the
largest tributary of the St. Lawrence. 1t
is the principal outlet of lake St. John,
and in its course to the St. Lawrence re-
ceives the waters of eleven large rivers.
There are many things about this part OF
your trip worthy Of more space than We
can give to it in this short letter, as we
have just arrived here, and are now wait
ing for the train that is to take US to the
Green Mountains of Vermont. There are,
however,
TWO POINTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
we cannot pass. Cape Eternity and Trim
ity Rock and THE Tabeau" This latter
is the abrupt termination of plateau in
what appears to be a column over 600 feet
high by 300 feet wide, with all the appear,
ance of having been cut from solid rock
by some giant sculptor.
OF the other two promontories, Cape
Eternity is by far the grandest. They
are grand beyond description, and must be
seen TO be understood and felt. At the
base of these rock pyramids, the water, in
some places, is a thousand feet deep, and
in the shailowest places is hundred feet
deep The water of the river is remarka-
bly, clear, but under these cliffs 1t is as
| black AS night. OF course there are the
usual Indian legends connected with these
places, as well rs with the many falls which
are said to exist along the upper part Of
the river.
Returning from this wonderful river you
| take the train at Riviere du Loup, and with
you are again with us in Montreal. Here
we bid our ARGUS friends good by for a
few days, to join friends in New York.
Sorry that we cannot write more, as there
are thousand things we would like to
write about from this part Of our trip.
When once up in the mountains, with our
fishing equipments, (which we assure our
Moline admirers shall not consist of the
equipments 50 common to the fishing par
ties under the directions of Uncle John
or Tommy that starts from Coe u Strong 81
we shall then devote ourselves to fishing
and eating. Yours, IS.