78 LAKE SUPERIOR. 



crowded with trout of immense size ; but the water 

 is dark and easily heated, so that the fish often desert 

 it for the lake. There is a sameness about the 

 Batchawaung, and a want of picturesque effect, that 

 is altogether different from the Harmony ; we missed 

 the noise of the falling water, the sight of the pretty 

 cascade, when we came to pitch our tent about four 

 miles from the mouth, at the first shallow rapids, 

 and throughout our whole trip we never saw the 

 equal of the romantic Harmony. 



There are but two rivers emptying into Batcha- 

 waung Bay that are generally laid down on the 

 maps the Batchawaung and the Chippewa but 

 the guides assured us there were four fine streams. 

 The location usually given to the Chippewa applies 

 well to the Harmony, and it may be they are the 

 same river under different names. Our ordinary 

 maps of the northern shore of Lake Superior are 

 altogether imperfect, and even the charts of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company are not entirely accurate. 



Anxious to explore the stream, no sooner was our 

 camp pitched and dinner over than we embarked 

 and continued the ascent, being poled against the 

 current by the two guides, and trying every promis- 

 ing spot as we passed. Fish, however, were no- 

 where to be found, and disgusted with the heat 

 that not only annoyed ourselves but had destroyed 

 our sport, we were about giving up, when Frank 

 stopped the boat over against the mouth of a little 

 murmuring tributary brook. There were a quantity 

 of small stones and large rocks where the rivulet 



