THE LAURENTIDES PARK 



the assistance even of a blazed trail. The 

 sixty miles stretch out to one hundred 

 and fifty by the devious route which 

 would have to be followed. 



This seems rather a forbidding pic- 

 ture of a tract that the government has 

 set apart as a " public park and pleasure 

 ground," but that is only at the first 

 glance and to the faint-hearted one. 

 Were it not for the outworks that 

 nature has built to guard her citadel, 

 were it not for the difficulties that have 

 to be overcome in the old-fashioned way 

 by strength and skill of hand and 

 foot, these wild places would be over- 

 run by board-floor and cocktail camp- 

 ers, by men with automatic rifles who 

 shoot everything, including their com- 

 panions, on sight, or take, for a record, 

 fish that they cannot use, and by tourists 

 who think it amusing to set on fire a 

 noble birch or moss-draped spruce to 

 make a ' ' forest torch. ' ' Thank the gods 

 that be, no motor-roads conduct to this 



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