shore resorts, making connection on its return with trains going east and west each morning and afternoon. On Sundays the boat goes to and returns from Pointe a Pic only, but as the other resorts are only a few miles from that place, it is easy to reach them by carriage. Stopping at Riviere Ouelle Junction, taking the train there to the wharf and boarding the smart river steamship, an enjoyable run of about sixteen miles brings up at St. lrénée, from which place the Champlain passes on eastward to Pointe 51 Pic and Murray Bay, and thence to Cap '21 l'Aigle. On alternate trips the order of calls is reversed; the Champlain proceeding first to Cap 21 l'Aigle and then going west calls in inverse order at the other points.

The four resorts are entirely different in character, and to some extent in scenery. The name Murray Bay is frequently applied to the whole district reaching from Pointe a Pic to Murray Bay, a distance of about three miles. This causes some confusion in addressing and receiving letters, and it is well to remember that the steamboat landing is at Pointe a Pic, that the Manoir Rich- elieu, most of the hotels, and the heart of the resort, all within easy driving distance of the wharf, are included in the Pointe 21 Pic postal district; while the name Murray Bay properly belongs to the postal district surrounding the old village on the Murray Bay River some three miles distant.

Pointe 51 Pic is a beautiful summer resort much in favor with wealthy people. It is decidedly fashionable in its general tone, and there are many handsome residences and bungalows on the heights and down along the cliffs and sloping fields of the Bay shore. Carriage-driving, tennis, golf and boating are the chief amusements. Murray Bay, by which is meant the old French Village near the river bridge, is a quaint place, less fashionable, much more compact and town—like, and where the hotelsfismaller and not so expensive as those at Pointe a Pic—are in the midst of the busy little main street, but within a stone's throw of the open country on both sides of the river. St. Irénée is smaller and quieter than either of the foregoing places. It is about six miles south of Pointe '21 Pic. Here a delightful life may be enjoyed at a quiet family hotel right on the beach, in the midst of a charming country side for walks and rambles. Cap a l’Aigle is the quietest resort of all. It is about three miles east of Murray Bay. There are no hotels, but the roomy farm houses on the cliffs have been adapted for the reception of Visitors, and the summer life is altogether rural and free from fashion's trammels.

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