The Lady Head steamer, by which I traveled from Gaspe, came to a full stop opposite Riviere du Loup, on the night of the 14th of August at nine o'clock, for the purpose of enabling several of the Canadian ministry, who had joined us from the Queen Victoria, to go ashore and take their places in a special train for Quebec. They went, and I with them, across the dark water in a four-oared boat to the landing slip, where lay the Magnet, bound for an excursion up the Saguenay. My object was to take passage in her, so, parting from my friends, who had a dreary, jolting three-mile ride before them, to the railroad station —a lot I by no means envied. I secured a state-room in her and retired. This is the end of Act 1.

Soon after three the paddle-wheels of the steamer began creating a sensation in the waters of the quiet inlet where she lay, and, awaking, I became conscious that she had started on her trip, which the advertise ments declared to be the only opportunity for meeting the Prince in the Saguenay.

The Riviere du Loup flows into the St. Lawrence from its southern side, and away on the other side of the inlet may be seen the village of that name.

The mouth of the Saguenay is a rocky gap, situated a hundred and thirty miles below Quebec, and this gap was filled with mist as we entered. On its lower side is a barren and stony point known as L'Islet, and this divides the Saguenay from Tadoussac Bay, to the eastward of which two terraces of.