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The beanfciful Couloiige Lake lies spread out eastward from this 

 point and is the eastern limit of our subject of study. 



Tui^ning our attention to the western limit, we may safely say 

 that the scenery among the islands of the Paquette's, up the Culbute, 

 around the Lost Chenal, thi'ough the Allumette lakes, Alluraette Bay 

 with its many islands, the Sturgeon Lake and entrance to Deep River, 

 is as fine and enchanting as any to be seen in Canada east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. Dr. Perkins, of Boston, accompanied the writer 

 last summer in circumnavigating the Alluraette, and i^assed through a 

 lai'ge [>art of the district mentioned. This gentleman pronounced it as 

 " grand and beautiful " as anything he had seen in Europe ; and he had 

 at that time travelled over most of the Continent. It has been the 

 privilege of the writer to travel over and around our lai'ge lakes, 

 through the prairies of the Northwest, the Thousand Islands of the St. 

 Lawrence, the ten thousand islands of Lake Huron, to the head 

 waters of the Ottawa, through the States of Michigan, Minnesota ^ 

 Dakota and New York, over every tributary on the north shore of the 

 mighty St. Lawrence from the head of Lake Superior to Montreal city; 

 and, in all these glory-containing regions, the scenery of the Upper 

 Ottawa- is not surpassed and seldom equalled. 



To locate more accurately we may notice that this district lies 

 along latitude 45" 50', longitude 7G^ 40' to 77^ 40', Pembroke being 

 77*^ 10'. Height of the Upper Allumeite above the sea level 400 feet. 

 The Meteorological Station of Pembroke, vinder the charge of Mr. A. 

 Thompson, is 4:^3 feet above the sea level. " 



For the most part the imi)ortant sand plains lie on the south side 

 of the Ottawa. The ancient Laurentiaus skiit the north side of the 

 river, scarcely retreating over a mile at any place. We may contrast 

 the coast lines of the two provinces as follows : Ontario lies compara- 

 tively low, undulating, and quite unpretentious ; but is well supported 

 by ranges ot hills farther south. Quebec, on the north, presents a 

 rugged, massive, broken and barren appearance. 



a. On the Ontario side, the Chalk River sand plain begins a little 

 above Chalk River Station, twenty miles west of Pembroke, which 

 town it almost reaches. There are a few broken range interruptions 

 towards the lower end of this plain. These interruj^itions harmonize in 



