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undertaking has achieved, from the Saguenay River 

 throughout the British Provinces to the far West, 

 is an instructive evidence of the power of man un- 

 restricted and untrammelled. In various ways it 

 has left its mark for ages. 



Gros Cap is a perpendicular bluff, shooting straight 

 up from the water, and with its rocky clefts just 

 furnishing foothold for the active fisherman ; pieces 

 of rock seem to have been broken off and thrown 

 into the water at its base, and among these trout 

 are numerous. No place furnishes a pleasanter 

 camping-ground, although not directly at the fish- 

 ing ground, and few spots afford better sport. As 

 fortune was not particularly propitious, and our 

 journey was indefinitely extensive, we took advan- 

 tage of a calm that had settled down upon the lake 

 to push on across Goulais Bay, which lay as calm 

 as a mirror, bathed in the glorious reflection of a 

 cloudless sky. 



Farther out, Isle Parisienne seemed floating on 

 the water, while inside of us the bleak sides of the 

 abrupt hills were reflected in long wavy lines. The 

 sun had climbed the eastern sky and poured down a 

 *flood of warmth and light in strange contrast with 

 the tempestuous weather of several days. The 

 atmosphere, instead of being dense with impenetra- 

 ble fog, was exquisitely transparent, and the water, 

 that perfect ornament to every landscape, stretched 

 away as far as the eye could reach. 



" Dark behind it rose the forest, 

 Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees; 



