A SPORTING PARADISE 



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 THE MUSKOKA LAKES 



nr^HE Muskoka district consists of more than 

 eight hundred lakes. These lakes repre- 

 sent the most picturesque region on earth. They 

 are dotted here and there with thousands of 

 small islands. The shores on either side are 

 thickly wooded to the water's brink. There are 

 quiet, secluded creeks, and uninhabited bays, and 

 vast tracts of fertile, unclaimed lands awaiting 

 the sportsman and the emigrant. These darksome 

 shores, fringed to the water's edge with pine, 

 cedar, and other evergreen, are still the continual 

 abiding-place of deer, hares, grouse, foxes, porcu- 

 pines, and fur-bearing animals ; while even yet, 

 in the more solitary wilds, the lordly moose, the 

 wolf, and black bear are to be found. 



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