MOOSE LAKES. 235 



somed in trees, while a beach oi sand, white as the 

 driven snow, and almost as fine as table salt, shows 

 between the green frame work of the forest and the 

 lake, presenting a beautiful and strange contrast 

 here in this land of rocks and cliffs. The bottom is 

 composed of this white sand also, and can be seen 

 through the clear water at an astonishing depth. In 

 such cold water, with such a clear bottom, how can 

 the trout be otherwise than delicious ? 



This charming sheet of water is about three miles 

 in length, with an average width of a mile and a 

 half. 



The seven lakes that follow are not a mere repeti- 

 tion of the first, but vary both in size and shape, with 

 a different frame-work of hills. The change is ever 

 from beauty to beauty, yet a separate description 

 would seem monotonous. 



There they repose, like a bright chain in the forest, 

 the links connected by silver bars. You row slowly 

 through one to its outlet, and then, entering a clear 

 stream, overhung with bushes, or fringed with lofty 

 trees, seem to be suddenly absorbed by the wilder- 

 ness. At length, however, you emerge as from a 

 cavern, and lo ! an untroubled lake, with all its varia- 



