Down North and Up Along 
Interesting and ofttimes beautiful formations. 
We heard of fossil trees standing upright on 
the shore, and of fossils as various and valuable 
to the geologist as the gems of Blomidon and 
its neighbours are to the collectors of beautiful 
stones. 
The " back country " is extremely rocky and 
rugged with roUing hills and intervening valleys, 
more or less fertile. The woods are exquisitely 
mossy and the brooks the most distracting 
of their kind, as clear as crystal and as wild as 
the rocky land through which they find their 
sparkling way. Their pools are not untenanted, 
as one can discover by sprinkling crumbled 
leaves on the surface when the inquisitive trout 
put up their noses and display their colours. 
The lumbermen set up their portable saw- 
mills back in the woods ; and the " deals," as 
they call the unplaned spruce boards, cannot 
float down the turbulent and meandering 
brooks, nor yet be drawn by waggons or sleds 
through the rocky wilderness, so sluices are 
built, sometimes many miles in length, which 
carry the water of the turbulent brooks in a 
steady flow down the hills. Down hills and 
across valleys the wooden troughs float the deals, 
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