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mook, from which all the prominent hills about the lake are visible. 

 The view lo the east is the finest (Figure 9), but to the west it is little 

 inferior (Figure 10). Above all and over all, however, towers grand 

 Sagamook. Rising steeply over sixteen hundred feet directly from 

 the lake, higher than any other New Brunswick hill rises from the 

 water, clothed with living forest, except for a few bold bosses near 



its summit, shrouded often in mists, it is easily the finest, even though 

 not the highest, of New Brunswick hills. Happy is he who, from the 

 ideal camping place upon the island, can watch day after day these 

 beautiful hills in their varying lights and colors, and can know they 

 are his own. 



Next in charm to the hills is the virgin forest which clothes them. 

 This is everywhere entirely unbroken, except for the few naked spots 



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Fig. 10. 



near the summit of Sagamook. There is no trace of fire, nor of the 

 lumberman. Probably in no accessible part of the province is there a 

 finer forest, or one more nearly primeval than this. It is of the 

 mixed growth of our common provincial species, and it is a fine sight to 

 see the splendid spruce in sombre green towering above the level of 

 the brighter green hard woods. This forest owes its preservation 

 to the expensiveness of driving lumber down the crooked Little 



