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organic matter sufficient to maintain in luxury an immense 

 number of fish. 



Georgian Bay itself is deep in the centre, with a bottom 

 of mud and weeds, sloping gradually upon all sides towards 

 the shore, and forming extensive sandbars, which are inter- 

 spersed with countless reefs and islands, some large, others 

 so small as barely to provide a resting-place for gulls, while 



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others again lie just beneath the surface of the water, a 

 menace to navigation. 



The bays abound in sand beaches, to which the fish go 

 in the spring for the purpose of spawning, and what other 

 countries are attempting to build up artificially on a small 

 scale, with a large expenditure of time and money, is pro- 

 vided free for the province of Ontario by the hand of Nature, 



Minnows in the shallow bays and ponds, and crayfish 

 amongst the broken rock and stone, exist in milHons. 



As the prevailing winds are westerly, the water of Georgian 

 Bay is being continually driven up against the eastern shore, 

 and oscillations of the lake set in, producing currents which 

 run, sometimes off shore, sometimes on shore, or even in 

 opposition to the wind, causing the waters of the narrow 

 channels between the islands to ebb and flow continuously. 



