I L ,? VS the lanU that * ave me b lrth. 
i'ho’ cold her north wind blows ; 
I loye her ice-bound winter lakes : 
I claim a kln«hip to the flakes 
That form her virgin snows. 
Tve roved in many a southern clime 
W here orange blossoms wave ; 
Where broad bananas fan the olr • 
Where nourishes the citron lair, 
Beside the azure wave. 
Tve lain within the myrtle’s shade • 
Beneath the waving palm ; 
Amid the oleander g-oves, 
Where summer perfume ever roves, 
With many a fragrant buirn. 
I’ve pulled the lusclons, fragrant pine, 
And culled pomegranates fair— 
The sugar apple of the South,— 
A Ti'! a l e 8 7 th0Se con 1 uer °rs of the drouth,- 
And cherlmoyas rare. 
I’ve seen beneath the crystal wave, 
The coral Insect’s home, 
Bright flowers that with the rainbow vie 
And beauteous shellr, that scattered lie ’ 
Beneath the ocean's foam. 
I’ve watched the molten tropic’s snn 
Go down beneath the sea— 
Where Chimborazo cleaves the sky 
Ablaze with many a sunset dye 
Reflected— on our lea. 
IVe watched the ponderous sport of whales 
In s mthem teas at play ; 
I ve watched the C hilian condor’s flight 
To tow ring crag, where flrst the light 
Proclaims the dawning day. * 
I’ve seen the lightning flash from eyes 
Where midnight shadows lie ; 
IiSr 1 ? 1,r0Ud Uuu * ht '- ,rs met my view 
With locks that mock the raven’s hue, 
Whose pinions cleave the sky. 
Bermuda’s daughters, too, I've seen, 
Whose beauties Moore lius sung ; ’ 
And Friendship’s warm right hand’l’ve met- 
I feel the tingling pulses yet— 
From strangers roved among. 
Bat ever tarns my heart to thee, 
My bright Canadian home ; 
An.l dearer grow thy broad blue lakes 
Thy silvery streams, thy woodland brakes 
With every step I roam. 
The proud magnolia’s bloom I love ; 
The myrtle’s perfumed shades ; 
But, oh ! how dear above them all', 
A single crlmsoa leaf let fall 
By Huron’s maple glades. 
By Huron’s sounding shores I’ve left 
My dearest friends on earth ; 
May God’s own mantle from above 
Rnfold them and the land I love. 
The land tnat gave me birth. 
R. S. 
PanJr'bva 0 ^,^ WrlHen Dl ° eyearS af? ° an " |lu,jllal| ed a Bermudian 
foLve^ils natlv^un^f Q " derlch ’ w "° Wus compelled by 111 health 
Wo know not if ‘"e more genial climate of those Islands. 
«ure?the SP Ll ! 1,13 3lre ‘'K"> and yet lives; but, If not. 
to hu departed genius “ llnes wU1 prove a sufficient memorial 
For Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun 
§he gih/imteon Ijhca in 
If: 
QUR party consisted of M<ssrs. p. Adorns Ames, one of 
N™ York Pr °f ,l0r ; f o ' C *"l> Whitney, H. P. De Gntf, of 
KtewCeT , °”° XUutsd “J' W be. 
ttee lo71 , 7 * he l[lkes - 0ur team of 
^ beSd “J d ' dnVCn by 01,srli<! O^bnme, who 
oirrr °° ° ur way - ° mu ^ 
*0 a ti e a “ • he AUtl0Ver g,, ‘ dCS ' b " d be “ 
»a, la air ° ““ C ° DdUl0E ° f t ' , ° ice - Tbe road 
condition, and wo reached the Arm about noon. 
thT bS“„ “V bd ” g a “ l “* -/Jo inoh« 
'he foot 
to XaXm*’ WeTtft 
back 6 to^the^am^f’ ^uckUy^or 'us Ui” ^ or ' u ’ D ™ ad ^°ur n way 
rapidly fading daylight forVlm lbat troubled us was the 
oaf on? suppef J’ffi* taafSr,," 11 
retrieved ; for Ames . , tm 8 little difficulty was 
about four inches lon«- w,,’ » n i f* as \ P r ° duce d a wax taper 
imm&m 
sg ssis srayg $,r mh ‘ s m 
into^mn D M, bad u 0W b >own a hurricane, and found its wav 
&d'=r.e f 
7oZrH7 bC J tf " SU “ PP f&»h^tart e we° m ro& 
thelee” U b rj,h C e°“„it“ r Si„“ d d KnTtX fiftg ^ 
offered to draw one and Milton took the other while Whit! 
uey and Ames went ahead with the ax, soundiu- the ice in 
TZtir le t Bpir t l8land ’ >“®Pmi °ear the eastern shorn 
i'tt c “ refui,y - <» ■>—: 
It was a beautiful morning, clear, frostv snarlflintT n „,i 
w„ perfectly calm, with the & U^5^S5MlSJ%^ 
below zero. The scene before us was magnificent • the gfassv 
°.( th . e lake - tbe snow-covered mountains, th/dark 
hrs on the bill-side, the guarlcd and twisted cedars by the 
Wnbfff a r?, d m eV if n bUgC boulders on the points, all com- 
bining to make the picture. As we neared Hard Scrabble 
we found the ice growing thinner and thinner, but it was 
wonderfully touch and elastic, bearing us up, although it 
cracked in every direction as we passed along, sometimes 
buckling an inch more under us, and I expected every mo- 
mH?thr P f°n, tbl i 0Ugb 'f Il . w “ 8 a3 cIear a9 crystal, and^being 
only three quarters of an inch thick wo could look through it 
as one would a window-pane, and see every grain of sand 
every pebble, and every weed with the utmost distinctness. ’ 
Reaching the pomt we found the ice broken up a little near 
the shore, and we bad to take to the rocks. We fastened 
long lines to the sleds, and then with poles pushed them 
.farther out on the lake, where the ice still remained whole 
Crawling along the ice-covered rocks that formed the line of 
the shore, I drugged the sleds, while the guide kept them out 
with the pole. It was slow work, but we stuck to it and 
made about half a mile above Hard Scrabble, where we took to 
the ice again. We went on for half a mile further, and then 
ing that SVc^liS^vM of ardffry Cra * hiD « and crack- 
we beheld 3 - T .l« 
?0 P r'mTngTree? ~ 
across the lake. We stood an^wSS 19 ^ ex . lended entirely 
snapping, cracking nn^i k aD i d " a ^ cbed *1 as it was hove ud 
until at last it settled backto^SewTftf ' and 'thundering) 
an open channel from shorn n T* ° f lhe fleld icc ’ '^viug 
width. A half amileabovewennS 8 ° me fect 
nel, also extending the entire ,if o * n0tlCLd ft 6CCOn<l °Pen chan- 
jond that 
tween the lower and , ul bwr-way across. Be- 
nnie, the ice had also br^ken^wSy'fVom tSThoVh ab - 0Ut “ 
P H> iTS? aU n*! le Way some twenw“e«in width Vmg ““ 
shore to drag the akdXoXvenJ^t? 08 -h° far fcom tL ° 
aud poles, while the shorn’ .' C Ul , d of our but ' 9 
Sinff^j b ^ W Jj!!J t n ^ be tbe sl'gbtest possibility of 
several trips if w e und i.S a * be ? bli ,« ed t0 maka 
mmm 
the lake about a mUe balf ‘ Way po,Dt ’ nud rea f biD fi into 
al|!“=ss“ss 
^ai^fisSSsSSS 
had both i™l ,i . ?“ p “g° lIr adventures. They 
fey SS .^ioh mammotf, four.fcet' lo ss w 8 
we eu^ovefl nn’r g 0U , “ ap P' n S embers on the hearth, 
the dav and )°,dd f ^ and P'Pcs, recounted the incidents of 
me ciay, and laid our plans for the future. 
senseofthewH’^ hiCl - 1 C0 , D8ider a model camp in every 
of Lake Moleohnnk^ 0 ^^ & 0Ve y , 81 te on ,be eastern shore 
Brook inTl,P im^"i a ? Unk '- ? ear the moulb °f Mosquito 
S fronls^ ^hA liK ned * ate . 1 vic, n i ‘y of excellent fishing grounds. 
The whoteSiner nn ' ‘J "in a ^°, ut ?'8 ht rods from The shore, 
and SegKK 13 Visib,C ' Witb ils windin g 
m~ b ^ .house averlooks Observatory and Aziscohos two 
formS“n i° f rema , rkably aymmetry at the head of the like 
oSmtw^T? e b0twe . en f it a , ud the Alagalloway River.’ 
4,000 feet above P c ? k -, r,si 9« ‘o a height of some 
On the northed u ’ an( L 19 llcavily woodetf to the top. 
Pond ESSS? 1 U , sv f ee P s down to the Upper Richardson 
^y° d : Aziscohos, which IS several hundred feet higher than 
its ne^hhor, lies a little southwest of it, and has two peak! 
about a mile apart, with quite a depression between them It 
in S k! £ old ! I« d «ark. visible from almost a!y par ”f the 
ionn ^ i and tbc whole of this section of th! 
country . Several persons who have made the ascent of hntli 
mountams, declare that it commands a toer vTe^h!S, M?S 
the we!f its D 'bfl^“ tWar | 1 f 080 . 011418 to ward the lake, while ou 
lowa^ w f bed by ‘he wild and turbulent Magal- 
and ObseJv/3 « d bc ;y° nd [ he va,lc y’ between Az.scuLs 
!!d p b 5 r * l x, y ’ 6evcral smaller mountains appear, Bennett 
and Emery s Misery attaining the most prominence. 
hMii P « < r 81te tbe camp » 0n tbe western shore, a range of wooded 
a? ,? ean P™ tenll0D9 as to height, sweep away to the 
Hhi^Toi Southwest the view is enhanced by two little islets— 
olnp Island, so called from three old pines that grow upon it 
suggesting the masts of a vessel, aud Ilulf-Sloon Island’ 
crescent shape in form. South one can scan the lake to the 
Narrows, where the silvery waters disappear, lost in the 
emerald green of the forest. Beyond the foot hills the 
greater part of the White Mountain ranee appears walled 
against the sky ; Washington, Jefferson, and KSs being 
easdy distmgmshed from the other peaks-sharp, clear! and 
well defined, hrom our piazza with an ordinary glass the 
buddings upon be summit of Mount Washington may be dis- 
tinctly seen, and in some of tbe extraordinary clear days of 
last June they were visible to the naked eye, although forty 
SZosptfe ' m * 1Catl ° D ° f tbe WOnderful 01 lLo 
-5S? P .S“ tD y,? thi ^ by fifty feet on the ground, two 
a! / , a b ,^ f lu height, and covered with a pitch roof 
An eight-feet wide piazza, with its sloping roof, extends the 
