THE LAUEENTIDES PARK 



shine, humidity, barometric pressure 

 and east wind, would laugh at him who 

 made practical application of the wise 

 old saw, "Do business with a man when 

 the wind is in the north-west. ' ' Animals 

 and fish are delicately sensitive to me- 

 teorological conditions, while there only 

 remains to most of us an uneasy con- 

 sciousness of these which we cannot turn 

 to useful account. Yet are we not with- 

 out some disappearing trace of the sense 

 which foretells weather: Helen Keller, 

 seated by her fireside, and lacking the 

 guidance of hearing, smell or sight, is 

 aware of impending changes and an- 

 nounces the arrival of the rain. 



The countless, or uncounted, lakes 

 and streams of the Park are ministered 

 to by a very heavy rainfall. Perhaps 

 there are two inches in the highlands for 

 one on the shores of the St. Lawrence ; 

 certainly it is the saying of the country- 

 side that a foot of snow dans les parois- 

 ses means two feet in the mountains. In 



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