LAKE TEEMS WITH FISH 97 



everywhere, indifferent alike to the peace or 

 desolation of the quiet scene. 



Such is the aspect of Fort Du Brochet, the 

 furthest inland post in the region and one of the 

 hardest to reach from the far-distant frontier. 

 One may call it a rude settlement in a rude land 

 of water and cloud and wilderness : yet it had 

 its native life of quaintness and simplicity; 

 and, above all, its summer days, and its sunsets, 

 and its Northern Lights of superb, wild, natural 

 beauty. 



The clear blue water of Reindeer Lake is teem- 

 ing with fish, and it is almost as wonderful on 

 that account as it is for its rare northern beauty. 

 And those fish abound in water that is exception- 

 ally fine, and which, no doubt, gives to them 

 wonderful growth and well-being. An extract 

 from the Canadian Geological Survey Report 

 on the country between Lake Athabasca and 

 Churchill River, 1896, p. 99 D, states : 



" A chemical examination of the waters from 

 Reindeer Lake and Churchill River was made by 

 Dr. F. D. Adams in the Laboratory of the Survey 

 in 1882. In summing up the general results, 

 Dr. Adams says : ' Of the foregoing waters that 

 from Reindeer Lake is remarkable for the small 

 amount of dissolved solid matter which it con- 

 tains ; in this regard it would take rank with the 

 waters of Bala Lake, Merionethshire, Wales, and 

 Loch Katrine, Perthshire, Scotland. . . .' ' 



There are, in Reindeer Lake, as far as is known 

 to me, eight different species of fish, most of which 

 are to be found in many of the waterways of the 

 North, particularly where rivers flow, or have 



