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CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 125 So do I say, “ If you would see fair Shewinaga, Go visit her in the month of May.” The same writer, keeping up his happy nomenclature, thus carries on the description. “ On ascending the portage path we descried through the trees fair Shewinaga, dancing down the slope of the hill on our right hand with sinuous courses; about midway she grows suddenly fretful, and tosses herself headlong down a precipice of thirty feet; then, skipping along as before, glides gently at last with the main body cf the river. * » * * * So much for the beauty and elegance of Shewinaga. But what pen shall describe the terrific contrast—the collision, the conflict, the co-thundcr of the waters cf Shcwinagus and Shcwinagum. I ascended the hill w ith the chasm on my right hand, till I came to a point, which I shall call the Point of Co-thundcr. There, looking up, I saw an inclined plane, swift as an arrow, and Shewinagus tumbling and bounding from rock to roclc to meet him, and, when they met in the chasm below, what a sublime and terrific scene ! what rattling, roaring, tossing, boiling and foaming of w aters ! “• When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war!” It was indeed an angry ‘ meeting of the waters,’ and far from a 1 mingling in peace.’ There are large fissures in the precipitous rock, ir.to which the waves are driven by the force of the collision. Immediately above the fall the current is unbroken and quiet, though very rapid, as might be observed on seeing a huge log suddenly dip one end, and wholly disappear, on approaching the edge of the prec ipice.” The traveller on returning embarks in his canoe and de scends swiftly for some distance. After a long portage, which occupies considerable time, the Falls of the Gres are reached, and are well worth seeing. The pleasing appearance of the Gabelle Falls, like that of many others in America, has been much injured by being denuded of the fine trees that once graced it. Feme miles below are passed the Forges of St. Maurice, to which we have elsewhere alluded. In conclusion the Falls of Shewinagam, although very interesting at any season, are visited under the most favoura ble circumstances during the high waters of the spring and fall, or duping the latter end of May and the first half of October, L2