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                              A   T O U R

                                 TO THE

                     R I V E R   S A G U E N A Y,

                                   IN

                       L O W E R   C A N A D A.

                                   BY
                            CHARLES LANMAN,
                AUTHOR OF “A SUMMER IN THE WILDERNESS.”

                             PHILADELPHIA:
                     C A R E Y   A N D   H A R T.
                                 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.


                               CHAPTER I.

    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

                              CHAPTER II.

    A spring day—The sky—The mountains—The streams—The
    woods—The open fields—Domestic animals—Poetry—The poultry
    yard

                              CHAPTER III.

                         The Corn Planting Bee

                              CHAPTER IV.

    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

                               CHAPTER V.

    The Scaroon country—Scaroon Lake—Pike fishing by
    torchlight—Trout fishing—Lyndsay’s Tavern—Paradox Lake

                              CHAPTER VI.

    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

                              CHAPTER VII.

         John Cheney, the Adirondac hunter—Some of his exploits

                             CHAPTER VIII.

              Burlington—Lake Champlain—Distinguished men

                              CHAPTER IX.

    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

                               CHAPTER X.

                                Montreal

                              CHAPTER XI.

                                 Quebec

                              CHAPTER XII.

        A sail down the St. Lawrence—Sword-fish chasing a whale

                             CHAPTER XIII.

    The Saguenay River—Storm picture—The Hudson’s Bay
    Company—Eminent merchant—The Mountaineer
    Indians—Tadousac—Ruin of a Jesuit establishment

                              CHAPTER XIV.

                     The salmon—Several adventures

                              CHAPTER XV.

          Seal hunting on the St. Lawrence—The white porpoise

                              CHAPTER XVI.

                   The Esquimaux Indians of Labrador

                             CHAPTER XVII.

                         The Habitans of Canada

                             CHAPTER XVIII.

    The Grand Portage into New Brunswick—Lake Timiscouta—The
    Madawaska River

                              CHAPTER XIX.

                              The Acadians

                              CHAPTER XX.

           Sail down the Madawaska—The Falls of the St. John

                              CHAPTER XXI.

                        The Hermit of Aroostook

                             CHAPTER XXII.

                           The River St. John

                             CHAPTER XXIII.

                          The Penobscot River

                             CHAPTER XXIV.

                 Moosehead Lake and the Kennebeck River

                              CHAPTER XXV.

       A fishing party on the Thames—Watch Hill—Night adventures

                             CHAPTER XXVI.

    A week in a fishing smack—Fishermen—A beautiful morning at
    sea—A day at Nantucket—Wreck