128 Kingston to Toronto. 



deal of local traffic is done, it being the centre of a pretty 

 well settled district. It is 40 miles from Port Hope. The 

 tourist may go east from Fenelon Falls by steamer to 

 Bobcaygeon, through Pigeon Lake, Buckhorn and Chemung 

 Lakes to Bridgenorth, and if he takes canoe at the Indian 

 village between the two latter lakes, he can go through 

 another chain of waters which for beauty of scenery can 

 scarcely be surpassed. Lakefield, on the Otonabee River, 

 at the south-end oi Kah-cha-wan-oo-kah Lake, is the residence 

 of a number of English gentlemen who have taken up their 

 abode there chiefly on account of the attractions these back 

 lakes afford. Strangers visiting, this place meet with every 

 civility and attention, and could never be at a loss to find 

 abundant means of conveying themselves to the chain of 

 beautiful lakes stretching northward half-way to the Arctic 

 ocean. Lake Scugog, on which it is situated, is an ex- 

 tremely pretty sheet of water ; in form it is, as it were, a 

 double lake, being nearly divided longitudinally by a 

 peninsula from the south ; on its banks are several vil- 

 lages— Port Perry, Scugog, &c. The most curious 

 feature about this lake is the large quantity of swamped 

 timber that lines its bays; huge trees, whose Hfeless 

 branches look like spectres of the forest, stand immersed 

 with their roots from eight to ten feet under water. 

 This has been caused by the erection of the Government 

 dam at Lindsay for facilitating the lumber trade, throwing 

 the waters back and submerging the sides of the lake, 

 especially towards its head or southern shore. But as there 

 is no evil without some good, so these unsightly trunks and 

 roots afford a most secure retreat for the wild fowl, which 

 breed here undisturbed ; and the largest black bass may be 

 seen lying under the twisted roots, safe in the intricacy of 

 the flood-wood. There is excellent night spearing on the 

 shallows near Scugog village, the fish coming on to the 

 feeding grounds at dark. The whole region on the south is 



