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of the serenest and most contented of homes ; their farms, pitched at angles 

 of twenty to thirty degrees to the water, yield their slender increase, the 

 crest of spruce and fir adds softness and beauty to every contour. From 

 these homes the eye sweeps over a magnificent stretch of bay and sea and 

 never tires at the infinitude of variety in the scene. The observer seems to 

 view the panorama spread before him as do the sea mews wending their 

 way from their roost on the Bon Ami cliffs to the feeding grounds in the 

 barachois at Douglastown. The whole stretch of Gaspe bay lies before the 

 eye from the hillside galleries. Far away at the west are the rounded 

 sandstone mountains of Gaspe Basin, besmudged and screened by the 

 smoke clouds from the lumber mills at the great sand bar. Here the 

 panorama begins 

 and under the cir- 

 cling eye pass in due 

 succession the low 

 cliffs of Douglas- 

 town, its sand bars, 

 its tickle and Ijara- 

 chois lying low to 

 the water line, the 

 reddish timbered 

 hills of Bois Brule 

 and the crimson sea 

 wall of sandstone 

 running on east- 

 ward to Point St 

 Peter, the end of 

 the south shore save 



Looking south from Shiphead at the entrance of Gaspe bay; showing Point St Peter, 10 

 for the little ligl^ht- miles, Honaventure island and Perce mountain, iSmiles 



house crowned Plateau Island at its tip. Above these lower hights of the 

 foreground rise at the east the graceful curves of majestic Perce mountain, 

 24 miles away as the cormorant flies, crowned at the summit with the 



