XLIV. 



DESCRIPTION OF MUD LAKE — EXPLORING ITS INLETS- 

 VAST NATURAL MEADOWS — APPEARANCE OF BREED- 

 ING-GROUND OF THE MOOSE — KILL A DEER — NIGHT- 

 HUNTING AFTER A MOOSE — MUSQUITOES. 



Mud Lake, July 21st. 

 Dear H : 



I have been so long getting to Mud Lake, I suppose 

 you would be glad to know what it is like, and what 

 sights it furnishes to pay for such a tramp. 



It is an oval sheet of water, about a mile in diameter, 

 and covered with lily-pads in its entire surface, except 

 in spots here and there. Hence, in looking over it you 

 do not see a smooth expanse of water, but a smooth 

 expanse of lily-pads ; in fact, it is a lake vegetating — 

 turning into a huge vegetable. Standing on our rocky 

 point and looking up it, there seems to stretch away 

 from the farther end an interminable flat country cover- 

 ed with evergreens. 



