. Lake Superior to the Sea. hen retraceour course to the main river, and it is fromhere down that the magnificence of theSaguenay is most defined. We sail past CapeEast and the little lighthouse built on therocks at its foot, and are soon hemmed inonce more by the precipitous escarpmentsof this wonderful mountain gorge. A few miles below we pass a promontoryknown as La Pointe de la Descente desFemmes, where, shortly after the establish-ment of the trading post at Tadousac, someIndian women reached the Saguenay insearch of succor for their famine-strickenfamilies, hence the name. The little vil
. Lake Superior to the Sea. hen retraceour course to the main river, and it is fromhere down that the magnificence of theSaguenay is most defined. We sail past CapeEast and the little lighthouse built on therocks at its foot, and are soon hemmed inonce more by the precipitous escarpmentsof this wonderful mountain gorge. A few miles below we pass a promontoryknown as La Pointe de la Descente desFemmes, where, shortly after the establish-ment of the trading post at Tadousac, someIndian women reached the Saguenay insearch of succor for their famine-strickenfamilies, hence the name. The little villageof Des Femmes lies at the foot of the cape,and almost opposite, on the right, Maple Cove, where a lone habi-tant operates a little farm, defying, as it were, nature itself, strong inhis inherent belief in the right of man to live. Cape Rouge is next passed, then LaTableau, whose beautifullypictured face bears mute but eloquent testimony to the awful powerof the terrible cataclysm of rock and ice that changed the surface. With Seeming Compassion
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