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the lovely little lake of Massawippi, or Tomifobi, about nine 

 miles long, and from one mile to one mile and a half wide. 

 The scenery of this lake is very picturesque, and a greater 

 variety of fish is to be taken here than in any other lake in 

 the Townships. " Here are to be found," says Hunter, 

 " maskinonge, rock bass, black bass, the sucker, mullet, ■ 

 common pike, pickerel, trout, the eel, and others of less 

 consequence." The access for fish through its outlet, the 

 River Massawippi, which connects the lake with the St. 

 Francis River at Lennoxville, being free from obstacles, 

 may account for the numbers with which it abounds. The 

 shores of this lake are richly wooded, and indented by 

 winding bays and points jutting into the lake, and by arrest- 

 ing the violence of the winds, cause it to present a continuous 

 mirror-like appearance. On the right bank of the lake is a 

 considerable elevation called Blackberry Mountain, a great 

 resort during the season for parties blackberry picking, that 

 fruit growing there very abundantly. A few miles west of 

 Massawippi is Lake Memphremagog, about thirty miles 

 long by a breadth of about two, though in some places it 

 widens into three or four miles. This lake, the lake of the 

 Townships, which has been not inaptly styled the Geneva 

 of Canada, lies in a semi-circular form, partly among the 

 mountains, and partly in the valley beyond, which obliquely 

 crosses the northern portion ; stretching its southern ex- 

 tremity into the State of Vermont ; about one-third of the 

 lake belongs to the United States. Its Indian name was 

 " Memplowbowque," signifying a beautiful expanse of water. 

 The bosom of the lake is everywhere studded with islands, 

 generally covered with woods to the water's edge. The 

 boundary line crosses the lake, running through an island 

 known as Province Island. To do full justice to the scenery 

 of the lake, would require a small volume. The aspect 

 from the water of some of the mountains, which stretch 

 along its western shore, prominent among which is " Owl's 



