These falls of the St. Maurice lie about thirty miles in the rear of the town of Three Rivers, and are in many respects worthy of a visit. The most likely mode of accomplishing a visit is by engaging a canoe with voyageurs at Three Rivers. It is to be hoped that a good road may be soon completed as far as the Falls, and that accommodation for travellers near the cataract will soon be provided. The voyageurs usually ascend as far as the Portage of the Gres, where they receive into their canoe the stranger who has been transported thither by vehicle according to arrange-- ment. Shortly thereafter is passed Isle Tourte, which is about a league in length. In approaching the Falls at about the dis tance of a mile their head is seen through the tops of the high est trees. The descent from the top to the basin below may be fully two hundred feet. The Portage des Hetres or Beech Portage is reached soon after. Notwithstanding the numerous rapids there is much less difficulty in ascending than might be anticipated ; for, while a current runs down the mid channel at the rate of five or six miles an hour, there are opportunities of taking advantage of an eddy on either side, running up at the rate of three or four miles, by shoot ing rapidly across the main stream. There are three falls in time of high water, unconnected with each other, and meeting in a large basin. These a facetious writer in a Canadian Periodical, who re marks that he had learned some Latin in his boyhood, appropriately contradistinguishes by the names of Shewinagus, Shewinaga, and Shewinagum. There are two conspicuous rocks distinguished by the names of La Grande Merc or The Grand Mother, and Le Son Homme, or The Good Fellow. “ Of these three falls” says the writer alluded to “Shewinagus and Shewinagum, though distinct falls, meet in the chasm before they are discharged into the bay below. Shewinairum is the most easterly, or towards the left bank of the