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CHAPTER III. 



X awaking next morning, we find we have reached 

 Heron Bay, on the north-east angle of Lake Su- 

 perior, and soon we are running along the shores of 

 the lake. The scenery is very beautiful, and for 

 hours we look out upon the lake, its face now still 

 and smooth, and dotted here and there with white sails. 

 At times we are back from the lake a mile or more, and high 

 above it amongst the rocky- hills ; again we are running along 

 the cliffs on the shore as low down as the engineers dared ven- 

 ture.. For sixty miles the railway is carried through and 

 around the bold promontories of the north shore of Lake Su- 

 perior, with its deep rock-cuttings, viaducts and tunnels con- 

 stantly occurring. In some places the line is cut out of the 

 face of the cliffs, and as we glide along the ledges, we look 

 down upon the lake from the dizzy heights above. No part 

 of this wonderful scenery should be missed by the traveller, 

 who will be impressed by the extraordinary difficulties that 

 had to be overcome by the men who built the line. 



Rocky streams, with numerous waterfalls, find their way 

 down from the mountains, and empty themselves into the 

 lake, and we are seldom out of sight of dancing rapids or foam- 

 ing cataracts. At a small station, the engine stops to get a 

 supply of water, and two of us get off the train and wander a 

 couple of hundred yards away from the railway track ; there 

 a pair of white-throated sparrows were noisy and evidently 

 had a nest, but before we could find it, the engine bell began 

 to ring, and we had to hastily retreat and make a jump for the 

 train as she began to move off. 



We now reach Jackfish Bay, and the great sweep around the 

 bay is particularly fine. This is a great centre for fishing, and 

 the evening train going east to Montreal and Toronto always 

 stops to take a carload of white fish and large lake trout. A 



