88 LAKE SUPERIOR. 



the course of its windings it presents such a variety of beautiful 

 scenes of overshadowing forest, that we did not grudge the delay. 

 Two or three miles down, long after we had lost the roar of the Falls, 

 it suddenly came to us again, quite distinctly and unmistakably, 

 probably owing to some shift of wind. 



This valley is the only spot we saw on the lake that seemed at 

 all to invite cultivation ; indeed, if we except the posts, almost the 

 only place where cultivation seemed possible. The better quality 

 of the soil was abundantly manifest in the size of the forest trees. 

 The crumbling banks of loam and sand furnished abodes to large 

 numbers of sand-martins and kingfishers. We were seven hours 

 in reaching the Fort, and found our companions had left two hours 

 before. 



