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matter what the wind or the weather may be, some 

 part or other of the landscape is sure to be distorted 

 in a wild manner. One of its favourite vagaries is 

 to take hold of the tops of the pines on some quiet 

 little island and drag them out into elms with great 

 bushy tops some two or three hundred feet high. 

 Your telescope does not reveal the deception, and 

 when nearness at length destroys it, the poor little 

 trees seem quite shrivelling up with shame at the 

 trick which they have been made to play, and at 

 the disgust of the traveller on discovering their 

 real size. Mountains upside down, and one on 

 top of another, like thingummy upon what's his 

 name, are too common to be noticed ; but this 

 arboreal development is new to me, though before 

 now I have seen a thirty -foot camel dwindle into 

 a rock as high as my knee, and a roc undevelop 

 itself into a sparrow - hawk on a pebble stone. 

 Under the bright sun to-day the lake is as blue 

 and as fresh as the Mediterranean, with quite a 

 smart sea running, flecked with snow-white foam. 

 The fish are infinite in variety, but the " white fish " 

 are the finest of them all ; indeed, they are quite 

 the best fresh -water fish that I have ever tasted. 

 Unfortunately they are not properly preserved at 

 the spawning time, and at the present rate of 

 destruction the supply must soon run short. The 

 fishing is of great importance, and vast quantities 

 are salted down in barrels and exported to the 

 South. There is another fish, the " Siskiwit," so 



