PREFACE. 



Few scenes so easily reached from our own shores better 

 repay a visit than the forests, lakes, and rivers of British 

 North America. 



Whether to the sportsman, the naturalist, or the 

 traveller, nothing can well be more alluring than its 

 vast tracts of primaeval forest, inhabited by moose and 

 caribou; its game-stocked prairies of boundless extent; 

 and its broad rivers, filled with silvery salmon and spotted 

 trout; flowing through grand and picturesque solitudes, 

 little known and less frequented. 



Taking the St. Lawrence route, the traveller from our 

 own country is landed at Quebec in about ten or eleven 

 days. He may revel among the salmon rivers below 

 that city; strike up-country in pursuit of large game; 

 make a pilgrimage to the Falls of Niagara ; float over 

 the great Lakes ; fiU his sketch-book with the glorious 

 views that everywhere attract the artist; may kill his 

 grouse on the broad prairies ; and be back again before 

 winter, relating his adventures by his own fireside. 



