Identifier: americapicturesq02cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lopes near the watersedge along the valleys of several small streams, eachcluster having its church with the tall spire. Thebasin is two or three miles across, enclosed by boldcliffs and rounded hills, the Avide beaches of sand andpebble showing the great rise and fall of the tide.There is a sawmill or two, and lumber and huckle-berries are the products of the district. Chicoutimivillage is above the chasm, at a point where the inter-vale broadens, the savage mountains retiring, leavinga space for gentle tree-clad slopes and cultivatedfields. Standing high on the western bank are themagnificent Cathedral, the Seminary, a Sailors Hos-pital, and the Convent of the Good Shepherd, and notfar away a tributary stream pours fifty feet down theChicoutimi Falls in a rushing cascade of foam. Thereare extensive sawmills, and timber ships come in thesiuumer for cargoes for Europe, and the place hasrailway connections with Lake St. John and thencesouthward to Quebec. There is a population of about
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EXPLORING THE SAGUENAY CHASM. 601 tlirec thousand. The universal little one-story,peak-roofed, Avhitewashed French cottages abound,some having a casing of squared pieces of birch-barkto protect them from the weather, making them lookmuch like stone houses, and peeping inside it is foundthat the inhabitants usually utilize their old news-papers for wall-paper. From Chicoutimi down to Tadousac the region ofthe Saguenay chasm is practically without habitation.There are two or three small villages, chiefly abodesof timber-cutters, but it is otherwise uninhabited ; nordo the precipitous cliffs usually leave any place nearthe river for a dwelling to be put. As the visitorgoes along on the steamboat it is a steady and mo-notonous panorama of dark, dreary, round-toppedcrags, with stunted firs sparsely clinging to theirsides and tops where crevices will let them, Avhile thefaces of the cliffs are white, gray, brown and black,as their granites change in color. A few frothy butattenuated cascade

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