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cases for the preservation and transportation of the sugar 

 when made. The sap is brought from the trees to the 

 kettles by the boys. The length of the sugar season is 

 dependent on the weather ; about .three weeks generally 

 being as long as the sap will continue to run. We strongly 

 recommend every traveller in these parts to bring away at 

 least one mocuck of the sugar, both for his own special eating 

 as well as for those of his friends who may be unable to visit 

 these retreats. The Indians have some on hand more or less 

 throughout the summer, and a few fish-hooks are thought 

 more of than money by these children of the forest. The 

 waters of Lake Couchiching discharge themselves by means 

 of the River Severn, through beautiful scenery, into the 

 Georgian Bay ; and if the tourist wishes to extend his trip 

 into the genuine wilderness, he can take the steamer " Fairy," 

 which connects here for the Muskoka Settlement, some 

 forty miles north-east, on a lonely lake of the same name, 

 rich in scenery and sport ; but here he must be prepared to 

 rough it with the lumberer or the pioneer of civilization, who 

 may be clearing for himself literally a home in the wilder- 

 ness ; — must be prepared to satisfy his hunger with salt pork^ 

 and at night to be well acquainted with the yielding pro- 

 perties of a pine floor. From Orillia to Penetanguishene 

 the road lies through a thoroughly sylvan country, but this 

 place is well worthy of a visit, as being formerly both a mili- 

 tary and naval station. There is now a reformatory here 

 for juvenile criminals. The village lies on a small arm of 

 the Georgian Bay. The latter, indeed, might almost be 

 considered a separate lake, and not a part of Huron, extend- 

 ing as it does over one hundred miles in length, and being 

 separated from the main body of its waters by a range of 

 islands running parallel with its northern shore. There are 

 calculated -to be upwards of 23,000 islands between Notta- 

 wasaga Bay and St. Marie River. The longest of these is 

 called the great Manitoulin Island, and is viewed by the 



