XXVI, 



FOREST TROUTING A FAMILY OF THIRTEEN GIRLS 



RIDING "bare back" A CURIOUS HORSE RACE. 



August. 



Dear H > 



From the Raquette your nearest way out of the 

 woods is towards the Black River country. Ascend- 

 ing the Brown Tract Inlet four miles, you carry your 

 boat over a portage two miles in extent to the Eighth 

 Moose Lake, which forms the summit level of the 

 waters of this region — those on the west flowing west 

 into the Black River. This sheet of water is the first 

 of a chain of lakes, eight in number, connected by 

 streams, and forming a group of surpassing beauty. 

 Being on the height of land, it is filled wholly by 

 springs and rills, and of course its water is unrivalled 

 in clearness and coldness. It is completely embo- 



