Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
Cane Eternity.

Those who sailed up the Sauguenay,
from TadOusac, on the lower St. Law
renee, to Ha Ha Bay will have been
struck with the magnifcence of the
scenery, and especially with the awful
grandeur of those frowning citadels of
granite that seem built among the
clouds, aad that, at some points, so over
hang the mighty waters at their base As
to almost shut them out completely
from the light of day.
As the speed of the steamer is retard-
ell invariably when passing beneath
those frowning bastions, for the pur-
pose OF giving le tourist an opportuni-
ty of surveying them leisurely, one is
impressed with sence of impending
danger, as it is impossible TO look at the
millions of tons of solid rock, poised in
mid-air above you, without a suspicion
flashing through your mind that there
might be bare possibility of the dark,
appalling mass missing its foot and
coming laundering down upon you
with destructive force beyond all cal
culation.
1t has been ascertained that some of
those gigantic battlements have their
foundations buried thousands of feet
i'm the waters they sweep up to heaven
nearly another thousand, making in all
an unbroken mass of rock about two
thousand feet in hight.
The most stupendous of these impo-
sing works of nature is Cape Eternity,
a grand promontory which runs out
into the river, where the water is a
hou sand feet deep in places, and where
the steamer, as in Thrifty Rock, always
lies to, so that the passengers may feast
their eyes on the unequaled scene, and
the seals swimming about in the dis
tance.
There is strange story connected
with this cape, which may, doubtless
have suggested its name. In ancient
times, the legend informs us, young
Indian became deeply enamOred of a
daughter of one of the chiefs of his
tribe, who was scorceress, but lovely
beyond comparison, and who declared
that she would never marry an Indian
who had not shot or captured white
doe and brought it to her lodge.
This once understood by her young
suitor, he was on the qui rire day and
night, but all in vain. No white doe
had ever crossed his path, and he had
already given up all hope and aban-
doned the chase. The beautiful scorcer-
ess, however, had come to love him and
sympathise with his hapless case. But
a ban was on her also, for the Queen T
her terrible craft had so ordained it that
she should never become united to any
one save under the conditions men,
toned.
Perceiving him wasting away, how
ever, she one day, while he was wan
dering on the verge of the awful steep
of Cape Eternity, suddenly presented
herself before him in the shape of a
white doe that had apparently just
emerged from thicket.
On catching a glimpse of the beauti-
full creature his anguish knew no
bounds, for he had no weapon where
with to slay her, or means of capturing
her. On she came, howe 'er, grazing
and seemingly unconscious of his pres
ence, until she gained the verge Of the
cliff, within single pace of him. when
at one bound he threw his arms about
her neck. M
In his eagerness to secure her, how
ever, he came against her with such
force that she lost her balance and fell
over. the cliff, carrying him with her.
When in mid-air, nevertheless, and be-
fore they had sank forever into the aw-
full abyss, he uttered cry of joy, for
she had resumed her natural shape,