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Fiir oil", ill tile sanii' diri'dion, li-s :i scnVs nl' hills iiilcTiuiiiirh'd with 

 hikes and rivers : hiUi-s Trout, drs itard.'s, Tiichi''. iScc. tin' rivers liiinouski. 

 Little riiirioiiski. Tessier, iVe., ;iiul I'mllier iiwiiy, "ii th;' outliii' of tli.; 

 crest ol'the Alh^'^'haiiie^;. the moiiulain ol' Ste IJliuidiiK' and Mount C'ouiis 

 show up ag-aiu.st the blue sky. To the east th- view is bounded only by 

 tin- hills around Lake ^Irtis, ;")5 miles away 



We have had a u'linijise oC tiie 'j;r(i,i<li- li^'irn' ih's ho!!! /ranrs (wide strip 

 ol' hard wood timber), well known td iiuiilers. 



From the Squateek lakes to the Matai)e(lia river, (here is auextontof 

 about 1,1'80,000 aeri's ol' arable land. 



The climate oi' this reu'ion is about the same as that ol'the liaslern 

 Townshijis : the soil is ol' better quality and easier to cultivate. There is 

 probably uothinu" in the whole j'rfivinee to compare with it. And yet 

 the axe has beeii wi"l(b'd in th"si' selitudes only tor purpo«;i's ol'devasla- 

 tion and i)illa<;'e, nt^'cr lor the j>iu])ose of allnwiiiu' a I'urrow to be 



])loU'^,'l ,1. 



Til -!)liMidid jiine aloiiLT the lakes and the rivrs ,M|uateek and des 

 ()ntr:s has disappeared; it has bem lak'H down the riv.-rs asiaras Maine, 

 where it has been unscrupulously sold as eomiuu'' Ironi the Aineriean 

 forests, wi'hout a ci-nt l»einu' |)aid to us. <)\rr 14,Oni).(lO(l l',.(>t of pin,- have 

 been eui oil tile shore.>< o| fac dis O/i/rcs. Sneli a iiilla.ye will no loni>"er 

 be po;-sible in future, thanks tothe viy'iianefor the National (.lovi'rnuient. 



F'rom the summit ol I he S(|Uiiteik niouiitnin. we eannol look at the 

 iuimeiise forest without thinkinu" that in it tlicri' is p ■rli:i|>s a sullieient 

 means ol arrest in "• th • national evil. emjuTal !• m. which threatens to b. come 

 .serious in th" counti(«s ot Temiseoiiata and Uimoiiski. 



When this region shall be opciiid up to colonization, when roads 

 shall be mad-' everywhere, from t he old seiMiiii,,i-i,.s to the centre of the 

 Alleii-hany [)lateau ;_ when <lelermin"d iuid intelligent s"tt!ers shall have 

 plunj^ed into the forest, beyond t he line of hills v hii'h close the south, 

 th'-n till' youi'U' men, tic fuu'ilives of to-day. who i>;o to spend their 

 eiiern'y and lives on a forciii'ii soil, in the jioisoned atmosphere of factories, 

 will have the ambition to creat ■ a home for ih 'inselv ■,•; n.'-w the St. Law- 

 rence and near their familic.s, and they will I'litei- the I'j.rest clieerfuUy, 

 with a warm feeling in their hearts for Canada, their count iv- 



This fin»i rei^ion is (dose to tlu' 81. Lawrence, near the old parishes 

 and yet how is it that our surplus [)opulation has not gon • there i It is 



