Lake Superior loi 



rich as to be almost uneatable ; when placed in 

 the sun it melts away into oil, leaving nothing but 

 the head and the bones behind. Every time one 

 examines the boundary line between the States and 

 Canada, the more one is surprised at the utter indiffer- 

 ence to British interests shown by those who laid it out. 

 Isle Royal, for instance, a magnificent and most 

 valuable island close to the Canadian shore, has been 

 included in the States, though, geographically, it as 

 much belongs to Canada as the Isle of Wight 

 belongs to England. Do the Yankees intend to 

 use it as a place in which to relearn English when 

 they have so thoroughly debased their own language 

 as to render it useless as a means of intercommunica- 

 tion with the English-speaking races ? 



' September 20th. — We have had a lovely run down 

 to Ignace Island, passing on the way Pie Island, 

 so called by imaginative miners because a huge 

 truncated hill on one side of it reminded them of 

 an enormous pie. The scenery was very fine 

 indeed, Mt. Mackenzie above Fort William being 

 particularly bold and free in outline. From Jarvis 

 Island we went to Fort William itself, a Hudson's 

 Bay trading post, and till lately the only point 

 of civilisation in this part of the world where 

 trappers sell their peltries and buy their blankets 

 and ammunition. On a broad, brown stream, 

 rejoicing in the name of Kaministiquia, a building 

 occupying three sides of a square, one side, the 

 cosy house of the chief factor, embowered in wild 



