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their life from a great spring at the base of Bald 

 Mountain — the tallest, broadest and longest in the 

 Province, being 2,700 feet high, five miles long, three 

 broad, and surmounted by an almost level plateau. 

 The spring bubbles up volumes of water, so cold that 

 a hand placed in its gush soon becomes numbed ; and 

 so clear that the trout can be seen darting and turn- 

 ing up their speckled sides at the bottom. 



Whence comes the supply for this inexhaustible 

 spring ? Probably the rainfall on the broad surface 

 of the Bald's top, instead of running off in streams, 

 filters through the mass of earth and rock, to feed a 

 subterranean reservoir, whence through some syphonic 

 power it is forced up to the base of the mountain. 



For thirty-two miles along the river above the 

 Forks, the country is almost a virgin wilderness. 

 The chopper's axe has not as yet invaded the Nictau 

 Lake region ; and its broad stretches of land give the 

 moose and the caribou all the food they require and 

 the seclusion they covet. The lakes themselves and 

 the " dead-waters " on the small streams are fringed 

 with lily-pads and other aquatic growths that please 

 the palates of these strange animals. Here they may 

 nibble their breakfast, and drink, and attend to their 

 courtship, secluded and undisturbed — unless some 

 " Peeping Tom," in the shape of a hunter, should up- 

 set their program. And he often does. 



During the open season, September 16th to De- 



