PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



forms many miniature eddies ; but woe betide your tackle 

 if you should chance to hook a heavy fish whose gallant 

 spirit dictates a rush for the turbid centre waters ! No 

 rod or line on earth could possibly hold, and the shores are 

 too rough for the angler to follow downward. 



RIVER SCENE. 



It will be well to have a gun with you in taking the 

 tramp across this portage. The first time we traversed it 

 we saw a young bear, and the last time one of our party 

 came in such close contact with an old lady Bruin as to be 

 frightened almost to death, if it is admissible to judge from 

 his appearance rather than from his description. 



Having progressed a little over half the distance, a pret- 

 ty fishing-shanty, the property of a Bostonian, most oppor- 

 tunely offers itself as a resting-place, w r hile the panorama 

 from its porch fairly earns the eulogy of sublimity. Above, 

 below, and in front seethes the precipitous river, white with 

 foam, while in the distance the placid surface of a minia- 



