CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 49 guishable at a great distance, and serves as a land-mark to pilots going down the River. The Cape is about thirty miles from Quebec. From Cap Sante a large shoal, called Batlure du Cap Sante, stretches nearly to the entrance of the Jacques Cartier. It is thickly beset with rocks uncovered at low water. It is almost superfluous to remind the reader, that the river just mentioned has derived; its name from the famous navigator who first examined the St. Law rence, and secured his vessels at the entrance of this river during the winter of 1536. This river, from the precipitous nature of the ground over which it passes, has so impetuous a course that, where the main road passes the ferry near the St. Lawrence, the boats used to be trav ersed from side to side by means of hawsers stretched from one side to the other. It has now, however, a splendid bridge thrown across. In its course it approaches within sixteen miles of Quebec, and in a military point of view has been regarded as a powerful natural barrier, and may be termed one of the out-works to the city and environs of Quebec. Indeed the French, when expelled from Quebec in 1759, retired behind this river, and hastily threw up works, under the im pression that they could remain in safety for a time from the molesta tion of their conquerors.—The village of Pointe aux Trembles, on the left bank and about twenty miles from Quebec, is pleasantly situated on the projecting point of that name. In it is a convent conducted by Sisters of the Congregation of Quebec. Many of the inhabitants are industrious and in competency. The amphitheatre behind pre sents a pleasing coup d’ccil of farms cultivated to the summits of the hills, and of substantial farm-houses amidst extensive gardens and orchards.—From the Point nearly to the Seigniory of Desmaure or St. Augustin stretches a shoal, called La Batturc dc la Pointe aux Trembles, having numerous rocks uncovered at low water. Between Pointe aux Trembles and Cap Rosier may be seen near the shore the ruins of the first Roman Catholic Chapel built in Canada. A little below is seen Cap Rouge, which is about eight miles distant from Quebec. The Riviere du Cap Rouge feels the abstraction of the ebb of the St. Lawrence so strongly, that at low water its bed is nearly dry, and can be easily crossed without the assistance of tire ferry-boat. E