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ters the shute, this forms a natural flume. 
It can be plainly seen where, before the 
log slide was built, the water, after 
rushing through this natural funnel, 
spread fan-like in cascades over the sur- ' 
face of the whole side hill. It must have 
been an exquisite sight and it is now 
very wonderful to see the tumbled waters 
rush down the long shute. 
Compass Lake is almost square with 
the points of the rectangle exactly on 
the true points of the compass. After 
leaving the shute there is a winding- 
creek for a mile, at first between the 
rock walls but widening into a low cran- 
berry swamp as one approaches the 
lake. The stream that feeds Compass 
Lake enters from Louckes Lake at the 
extreme Eastern point. 
Here are found both small- and big- 
mouth bass in plenty and we fished for 
the better part of the morning. Arriv- 
ing at the Louckes Lake entrance, we 
portaged a hundred yards to the dam at 
the foot of the lake. Here we took pos- 
session of an old deserted trapper’s cabin 
containing stove and old seats. The 
owner had left firewood and pelt stretch- 
ers of cedar and willow and judging 
from the number of stretchers it must 
have been a great season. 
From here there lies directly to the 
North an old Indian portage from Com- 
pass Lake to Lynx Lake, which I was 
anxious to find. I had heard of the trail 
and as it would be good to know for the 
future, I gave up fishing for the day, 
took the rifle and started through the 
brush. Skirting the lake till I came to 
the North point, I continued directly 
North but somehow missed the trail, for 
I went up and up until I found myself 
on top of the highest of the hills, — fully 
five hundred feet above Compass Lake 
and seven hundred above Stop Log. The 
view from here defies description. Be- 
low, and seemingly a stone’s throw apart, 
on all four sides of the hill, lies the 
entire chain,— to the South, Compass and 
Stop Log; to the East, Long, Louckes 
and Trout; to the West, Bass and Silver, i 
while to the North lay Lynx, Diamond 
and Fairy. From the summit where I ! 
stood they could not have been more than 
two miles apart as the crow flies. 
Twenty miles below was Stony Lake 
with Deer Bay running out of it and, at 
the same distance on ail four points of 
the compass lay Cold, Gold and Catch- 
coma Lakes and farther still Loon, Eagle, 
Serpentine and Kosamogbog, all lakes of 
great size and beauty which I will at 
some future time attempt to describe. 
The summit where I stood is of bare 
red granite, comparatively flat, about 
fifty feet across and falling away steeply 
on all sides. A phenomenal thing here 
is a huge detached boulder of gray gran- 
ite, double the size of a grand piano, 
resting directly in the centre of the flat 
surface. This and numerous others simi- 
lar found here, would seem to prove the 
geologist’s glacier theory that the masses 
were left by the ice cap which, at one 
time covered the major portion of the 
North American continent. 
As I had missed the portage on the 
Compass Lake side I finished the journey 
and came out on a ridge above Lynx 
Lake. I went carefully over the ground 
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