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RECREATION 



FIG. 14. KITTY S BROOK, A VEHEMENT AND ROCK-STREWN STREAM 



recreation seemed to the writer the most 

 delectable part of Newfoundland. Some 

 of the pleasantest moments, the 

 most exhilarating, inspiring and 

 eye-satisfying walks were spent 

 on these rolling and diversified 

 uplands. (Figs. 3 and 4.) The 

 tops of the mountains are here 

 close at hand, though their actual 

 attainment dissipates first im- 

 pressions. The Codroy(or Little 

 Codrov, in distinction from 

 Grand River,, flowing through 

 the next valley to the west) is a 

 fresh-water stream winding in 

 graceful curves through a valley 

 of meadow-land, golden with 

 large and most radiant hawk- 

 weed and buttercups, with rat- 

 tlebox in clusters, and thick, 

 high, waving grass, full in places 

 of campanula and habenaira. 

 Thewoods — balsam , fir and 

 spruce — rise beyond the mea- 

 dows, and, in a short space, from 

 behind the foothills, the steep 

 mountains ascend to moderate 

 altitudes, their tops almost bare 

 of trees, or else furnishing dense 

 thickets of low balsam; the 

 traveler wanders over broad 

 shoulders, covered with meadows 

 of long grass, holding sub-arctic 

 flowers — here may be gathered 

 Viola selkirki — or spongily 



blanketed with moss (sphag- 

 num), while desolate fields of 

 broken, splintered rock, quite 

 bare, lie in waste expanses, 

 where nothing living can be 

 observed. Marshes, wet, con- 

 cealed bottoms, lakes and boggy 

 tracts, with ghastly intervals of 

 dead bleached scrub, diversify 

 these uplands or tundra, and 

 down the gulches, in the bold 

 profile-eroded and excavated 

 "bays," the streams pour in 

 cascades from the melting 

 snows. There was one beau- 

 tiful recess, with very pre- 

 cipitous walls clothed at their 

 sharp edges, where they broke 

 upon the upland, with grass and 

 herbs, and more densely and inextricably 

 hidden in birch and alder further down. 



FIG. 7. FISHERMEN S BOATS OFF THE TREATY SHORE 



