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Hatley, Stanstead and Magog Townships, with their nume- 

 rous farm houses, and patches of woodland here and there, 

 presents a scene most decidedly English in appearance. 

 Directly below the mountain ^re seen Whetstone Island, 

 Round Island, and Magoon's Point, with its shores beautifully 

 skirted with woods, and its background finely diversified 

 with meadows. The whole eastern shore of the lake, with 

 its gentle slopes and cultivated farms, presents a pleasing 

 contrast to the bold, mountainous aspect of the west. A 

 great resort of families coming to " the lakes " is the pretty 

 village of Georgeville, rendered more agreeable by the daily 

 plying of the little steamer " Mountain Maid." The Camper- 

 down House is the principal hotel ; but if accommodation 

 can be procured (and it generally may be had) at a farm 

 house, by all means give it the preference ; for however 

 good an hotel may be, and however attentive the host, there 

 is a restraint and a certain feeling of uneasiness, which at 

 once vanishes in a quiet, country homestead. The lake 

 empties itself into the beautiful River St. Francis at Sher- 

 brooke, by means of the River Magog, on which the water 

 power is very great. At the outlet of the lake is the pretty 

 village of Magog, where, in the rapids and pools of the 

 stream, the disciple of old Izaak Walton will find splendid 

 trout fishing, the fish weighing from one to six pounds, and 

 he can here, without any inconvenience, throw the fly, which 

 the generality of trout streams debar the use of, from the too 

 close growth of the trees of the forest. A live minnow is 

 also an excellent bait where the rapids are not too strong, and 

 a good, lively worm seldom fails to attract ; but the trout is 

 proverbially one of the most skittish of all the finny tribes, 

 though when hungry he is fearless as the hawk. The tyro at 

 the sport will often find his gut snapped, his jointed rod 

 broken in pieces and rendered useless, while the simple 

 country urchin at his side, with a coarse line five or six feet 

 long, tied to a short stick, will jerk them out as rapidly as 



