velocity among rocks and over precipices as is impossible to stem. Past Lake S^t John which is twelve leagues across the Sagunay to her source, is a continuation of falls and Rapids. The most remarkable of the former is called the Chaudiere and is about half way between Assuapmousoin and Lake S^t John[.] This large River collecting into a narrow compass precipitates herself at this place over a Rock of at least an hundred and fifty feet high with a foaming and noise surpassed only by those of Niagara. But to avoid being suspected of avaiting myself of the License of a Traveller it may be necessary to remark that the height just mentioned is not perpendicular and that the rock is divided into three parts rising above each other like the seats in a Theatre and forming three falls each of which may be between forty & fifty feet high[.]

From Tadousac the bare rocks on each side the Sagunay mountain their uncommon elevated and rugged appearance the distance of twenty five leagues when they gradually diminish and are afterwards seen cloathed with wood. [N]ow and again we are surprised by a wide Gape on either side through which a river runs abounding with salmon & trout[.] Five leagues below Chicoutimy we passed a Deep Bay on our left which

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