  A TOUR
TO THE
RIVER SAGUENAY,
IN
LOWER CANADA.
BY CHARLES LANMAN, AUTHOR OF “A SUMMER IN THE WILDERNESS.”
PHILADELPHIA: CAREY AND HART. 1848. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by CAREY AND HART, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA: T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS. TO SOLOMON T. NICOLL, ESQ., OF NEW YORK CITY. My Dear Sir, To you, in testimony of my friendship, I inscribe this little volume. On a pleasant morning in May last, I awoke from a piscatorial dream, haunted by the idea that I must spend a portion of the approaching summer in the indulgence of my passion for angling. Relinquishing my editorial labors for a time, I performed a pilgrimage which has resulted in the production of this volume, and I hope it may entertain those of my friends and the public who have heretofore received my literary efforts with favor. The work will be found to contain a record of adventures in the valleys of the Hudson, St. Lawrence and St. Johns, and along some of the rivers of New England. Truly, your friend, CHARLES LANMAN. New York, Autumn of 1847. CONTENTS.The Catskill Mountains—South Peak Mountain—A thunder storm—Midnight on the mountains—Sunrise—Plauterkill Clove—Peter Hummel—Trout fishing—Stony Clove—The Kauterskill Fall—The Mountain House—The Mountain Lake A spring day—The sky—The mountains—The streams—The woods—The open fields—Domestic animals—Poetry—The poultry yard The Corn Planting Bee Lake Horicon—Sketches of its scenery—Information for anglers—Sabbath Day Point—War memories—The insect city—Death of a deer—Rogers’ Slide—Diamond Island—The snake charmer—Snake stories—Night on Horicon The Scaroon country—Scaroon Lake—Pike fishing by torchlight—Trout fishing—Lyndsay’s Tavern—Paradox Lake The Adirondac Mountains—Trout fishing in the Boreas River—A night in the woods—Moose Lake—Lake Delia—The Newcomb Farm—Mount Tahawus—The Indian Pass—Lakes Sanford and Henderson—The McIntyre iron works John Cheney, the Adirondac hunter—Some of his exploits Burlington—Lake Champlain—Distinguished men Stage coach—The Winooski—The Green Mountains—The ruined dwelling—The White Mountains—The Flume—A deep pool—The Old Man of the Mountains—The Basin—Franconia Notch—View of the mountains—Mount Washington—The Notch Valley Montreal Quebec A sail down the St. Lawrence—Sword-fish chasing a whale The Saguenay River—Storm picture—The Hudson’s Bay Company—Eminent merchant—The Mountaineer Indians—Tadousac—Ruin of a Jesuit establishment The salmon—Several adventures Seal hunting on the St. Lawrence—The white porpoise The Esquimaux Indians of Labrador The Habitans of Canada The Grand Portage into New Brunswick—Lake Timiscouta—The Madawaska River The Acadians Sail down the Madawaska—The Falls of the St. John The Hermit of Aroostook The River St. John The Penobscot River Moosehead Lake and the Kennebeck River A fishing party on the Thames—Watch Hill—Night adventures A week in a fishing smack—Fishermen—A beautiful morning at sea—A day at Nantucket—Wreck of a ship—Night on the Sound—Safe arrival A TOUR TO THE RIVER SAGUENAY. |
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