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Summer Resorts of the Lower 81‘. Lawrence

‘ ROM the town of St. Croix, west of Quebec, ,‘ i J! where the river is three miles wide, to Sillery / Cove and the outlet of the Chaudiere, the

g St. Lawrence gradually narrows to a width of 1 less than one mile. After passing Quebec, however, and through the double channel that includes the Isle of Orleans, it broadens con- siderably, until opposite Baie St. Paul the great river has a width of over sixteen miles. Where the Saguenay empties it is eighteen miles across, at Little Metis it is over thirty-six miles, and finally to the west of Anticosti, where it meets the waters of the Gulf, it has a breadth of over one hundred miles.

The St. Lawrence carries an amount of water to the ocean that is exceeded by no other river on the globe save the Amazon. Its tributaries are all clear trout and salmon streams, and no water system can compare with it for purity. It has well been said that “ Its waters shake the earth at Niagara; and the Great Lakes are its camping grounds, where its hosts repose under the sun and stars in areas like that of states and kingdoms.”

Long before it reaches the end of its course the river has become as saline as the sea, its tide like that of the ocean, its atmos- phere about as breezy as that of the open Atlantic; and in the \‘Lll‘iolls resorts that are found on both shores—but principally or altogether on the south shore after easting from Tadousac and Les Escoumains —considerable variety of climate will be found.

From Quebec to Cape Breton, and Baie des Chaleurs to Halifax a geographical quadrangle is bounded that includes a diversity of scene and climate, and range of temperature, that cannot be found elsewhere; and this great variety of climatic condition enables the Canadian Government Railways to provide on its own system con- genial places to meet requirements that are widely different in char-

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