Excerpt from A Canadian Tour: A Reprint of Letters From the Special Correspondent of the Times

Lieving written thus much by way of necessary introduction, we will follow the route of our famous French explorers and original settlers Cartier and Champlain, as well as that of the modern navigator and enter Canada by the St. Lawrence. The voyage is now performed on a steamer 50 times the size of the vessels that carried them safely across the Atlantic centuries ago. The route passes to the southward of the great island of Anticosti, which lies in front of the river entrance. To the northward of this island the Quebec coast stretches away towards Labrador, and is a region almost without settlements. To the southward is the broad gasp� peninsula, between the St. Lawrence and Chaleur bay (famous for international fishery squabbles).anticosti is an uncultivated island about 145 miles long and 30 miles broad in the centre, narrowing towards both ends, and dividing the St. Lawrence gulf into two channels. Its east point is in 49deg. Latitude and 62deg.west longitude, and its lighthouse is si hted as a guide for the mariner before he saits at asafe distance along the southern coast of the island, which is her dered b dangerous reefs and is said to be without a oed arbour. The distant background of hazy hi Is in the interior rises sometimes to 500ft. Elevation. There are a couple of good havens on the other side, however, one in Ellice bay, near the western end, and the other at Fox bay, on the north-western coast. Anticosti is made a base of operations by fishermen in the summer, though it is said that few remain there voluntarily during the long and ice-bound dreary winter. Heretofore is has rarely been heard from excepting in cases of shipwreck. And attempts at colonization and settlement have not had very successful re sults. A new attempt is now being made, however on a more elaborate scale by an English company recently projected, which it is hoped will have a profitable future, though Canadians generally doubt it.

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