DAYS ON THE NEPIGON. 



and the fly is carefully extracted, that same 

 trout will call again perhaps. 



Though the days cannot be dull nor time 

 drag, the Narrows will not detain you long, 

 for there are still better things at Island 

 Portage, seven miles further up, with one 

 carry of 250 yards, which takes you around 

 Split Rock. This is a massive block, strikingly 

 picturesque, planted in the middle of the 

 river, and creating on either side rapids not 

 navigable northward for our small craft, but 

 which with careful management may safely 

 be run on the downward trip. 



Island Portage is a small island, only suffi- 

 ciently large for one comfortable camp, which 

 imparts a pleasant sense of ownership, though 

 it be only temporary. Here pitch tent 

 for a few days, if the ground has not been 

 pre-empted. There is on the east shore di- 

 rectly opposite the portage another and much 

 larger camping ground, but not so convenient 

 nor desirable ; and still another will be found 

 on the west side of the river, at the beginning 

 of the mile and a half carry, called Pine Port- 

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