OR, THE LAKE LANDS OF CANADA. IO 3 



remained near the team to give me such instruction as was 

 needed to pass the team safely over this road. The cold 

 was so severe and the road so rough that, having ridden 

 about three miles, I called on Chris to resume the charge 

 of his team, while I was now ready to follow the example 

 of my companions. The gray dawn of the morning had 

 made its appearance in place of the dim starlight that pre- 

 vailed at the time we started from Rosseau. Having- 

 transferred the reins to Chris I descended from the driver's 

 seat, passed to the front of the team, and started forward 

 at a lively pace, determined to quickly overtake Struce and 

 Mildenberger. 



It was probably about half an hour before I caught 

 sight of my companions, who were still about a mile ahead 

 of me, and moving forward at good speed, while the sun 

 was now shining brightly, lighting up the hill-tops, causing" 

 the frozen drops of water, which were clinging to the 

 branches of leafless trees, to sparkle with the resplendent 

 beauty of pure diamonds in a bright gas-light. The 

 grandeur of this scene afforded me the purest joy. I 

 inhaled this mountain air loaded with ozone as the 

 hungry man partakes of the choicest viands. The rapid 

 step at which I was moving forward caused me to expel, 

 in the first part of my journey, the old residuary air with 

 which the lungs of every sedentary person are more or less 

 filled, thereby enabling me to seize and appropriate a very 

 large quantity of this grand atmospheric stimulant, which 

 now caused the blood to course rapidly through every part of 

 the body, producing a joyous thrill in every fibre. 



In this mental and physical condition it was a pleasure 



