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and arches of immense dimensions. There are several 

 romantic bays and inlets, protected from storms— which are 

 frequent in the vicinity, — where the brook trout are to be 

 taken of a large size. The forests on it also afford a delight- 

 ful retreat, while all nature seems hushed — save by the 

 moaning winds and billowy surges of the surrounding 

 waters. The distance from William's on the island to the 

 Chapel is about fifteen miles. 



Near the western extremity of the lake are the Twelve 

 Apostles' Islands, which are evidently only detachments 

 of a peninsula known as La Pointe, rising from ioo to 200 

 feet above the waters, most of them clothed with a rich 

 foliage of forest trees. The waters around them teem with 

 white fish, trout, and ciscovet, which do not appear to 

 diminish after years of extensive fishing. For trout and 

 ciscovet, which are to be taken with a line in deep water, the 

 best ground of the neighbourhood is off Bark Point or Point 

 " Ecorce," of the French. There is a dreamy summer beauty 

 about these islands when everything else in summer is hot 

 and glaring, which gives one a wish to linger around them. 

 Near them is another cluster of pictured rocks, but only 

 about 100 feet high, composed of a deep sandstone. The 

 arches here are almost numberless, and exceedingly pictur- 

 esque ; while from the caverns, "even in a calm," there 

 issues a sound like thunder, which must be terrific when a 

 storm is raging. The two most prominent peninsulas on 

 the north shore are called Thunder Cape and Cariboo Point. 

 The former is about 1400 feet high, and frowns upon the 

 waste of waters like a crouching lion, which animal it closely 

 resembles in its outline. Cariboo Point is less lofty, but is 

 far-famed on account of the hieroglyphics which have been 

 painted upon its brow, in years gone by, by an Indian race 

 now supposed to be extinct. In the vicinity of these bluffs 

 are found large and beautiful agates^ The Canadian shore 

 abounds in rocky islands, but there is only one deserving of 



