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undei-taking has achieved, from the Saguenay River 

 throughout the British Provinces to the far West, 

 is an instructive evidence of the power of man un- 

 restricted and untrammelled. In various ways it 

 has left its mark for ages. 



Gros Cap is a perpendicular bUijQT, shooting straight 

 up from the water, and with its rocky clefts just 

 furnishing foothold for the active fisherman ; pieces 

 of rock seem to have been broken off and thrown 

 into the water at its base, and among these trout 

 are numerous. No place furnishes a pleasanter 

 camping-ground, although not directly at the fish- 

 ing ground, and few spots afford better sport. As 

 fortune was not particularly propitious, and our 

 journey was indefinitely extensive, we took advan- 

 tage of a calm that had settled down upon the lake 

 to push on across Goulais Bay, which lay as calm 

 as a mirror, bathed in the glorious reflection of a 

 cloudless sky. 



Farther out. Isle Parisienne seemed floating on 

 the water, while inside of us the bleak sides of the 

 abrupt hills w^ere reflected in long wavy lines. The 

 sun had climbed the eastern sky and poured doAvn a 

 flood of warmth and light in strange contrast with 

 the tempestuous weather of several days. The 

 atmosphere, instead of being dense with impenetra- 

 ble fog, was exquisitely transparent, and the water, 

 that perfect ornament to every landscape, stretched 

 away as far as the eye could reach. 



" Dark behind it rose the forest, 

 Rose the blaok and gloomy piue -trees; 



