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 thislittle volume.
On a pleasant morning in May last, I awoke from apiscatorial dream, haunted by the idea that I must spenda portion of the approaching summer in the indulgenceof my passion for angling. Relinquishing my editoriallabors for a time, I performed a pilgrimage which hasresulted in the production of this volume, and I hope itmay entertain those of my friends and the public whohave heretofore received my literary efforts with favor.The work will be found to contain a record of adventuresin 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—Midnighton the mountains—Sunrise—Plauterkill Clove—PeterHummel—Trout fishing—Stony Clove—The Kauterskill Fall—TheMountain House—The Mountain Lake
A spring day—The sky—The mountains—Th