sport in an Untoitcked A?nerican Wildertiess 



the interesting fact remains that a vast 

 region of surpassing beauty will probably 

 forever continue unmarred by settlement, 

 an impregnable game preserve. Myriads 

 of cataracts and cascades w^ill roar unheard. 

 Thousands of lonely lakes will smile in 

 the summer sun, or sleep quietly under 

 winter's covering, unvisited, except at long 

 intervals, by man. And as the Acadian 

 forests have survived the possession of the 

 savage, the Gaul, and the Briton, so they 

 will remain unharmed long after the next 

 obvious change in the map of North 

 America ; and forest, lake, mountain, and 

 stream will continue a perpetual joy to 

 the hardy sportsman and the gentle lover 

 of Nature for Nature's sake. 



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