^V^yM^OST of the great solitude 

 \[(d^Jm''JlmjJ% which two hundred years 

 ^ ago constituted the penin- 

 ^/^ sula of Acadia is as undis- 

 l!^^ turbed by civihzed men as 

 it was when British ships carried the 

 French settlers away from its border. 

 The interior has never been definitely 

 surveyed or adequately mapped. 



In the United States we have seen the 

 forests melt away like snow in an April 

 wind, and have come to look upon them 

 as merely transitory ; so that it is difficult 

 for Americans to realize the extent to 

 which, in the region of earliest European 

 occupation of Canada, primeval conditions 



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