RAQUETTE LAKE. U9 



ing all its renown. We saw before us a body of water 

 twelve miles in length, with irregular points of land pro- 

 jecting from either side and running far out into it, making 

 a most remarkable configuration of shores. It contains 

 eighteen islands, most of them bold and rocky, and sonic 

 of them exceedingly beautiful. The lake has, from its 

 size, an open look and a semi-civilized air unlike all the 

 smaller lakes, and very striking to one emerging from dense 

 forests. In sweeping around a point, one almost expects 

 to conic upon some quiet town or farm-house on the bay. 

 Take it all in all, it is as magnificent and beautiful a sheet 

 of water as one may ever hope to see in Hie wilderness. I 

 must add. however, thai upon the large lakes the winds 

 -omelimo- vweep with terrific force and there is danger of 

 wreck in the small boats in common use; and that the lish- 

 inir pools are so far apart that one often wishes, before 

 the long row is over, that the lake were smaller. I 

 COttfeea ft Superior liking for the smaller lakes. They are 

 often as beautiful, although not as magnificent, a^ even 

 Haquette in all its marvel of shores and islands and pel 

 lucid water. 



We landed at Constable Point, where there is an excel 

 lent spring, but the trees have been cut off, and the want 

 of shade makes it undesirable for a warm weather camping 

 ground; and we went on, across the lake, past < )sprey 

 (Murray ) Island to the foot, of the hill at " Wood's Place," 

 long since descried, not far north from Kast Inlet, or 

 Marion Uiver Mere we set up our tabernacle on a grassy 



spot well shaded by several large trees, near the shore, with 

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