Down North and Up Along 
not get to it without first getting badly lost, 
for these mountains of beauty are very stern 
realities when one attempts to ascend them, and 
guides are necessary. 
It is a short stage to Bay St. Lawrence, and 
we did not start very early nor yet hurry on 
the road. 
From Baddeck to Zwicker's is a distance of 
one hundred and one miles by the road, we 
were pleased to learn. The guide-books make 
the distance much shorter, but the guide- 
books are wrong. Any one who has travelled 
the road will know that it is no less than one 
hundred and one miles. 
The distance from Zwicker's to Bay St. Law- 
rence is only from five to eight miles, accord- 
ing to the part of Bay St. Lawrence to which 
one goes. We went eight miles, that is, as far 
as it is possible for mortal man to go in a 
waggon. 
After Sugar Loaf is passed, the road turns 
away from the sea and passes in back of the 
mountains. As soon as one gets behind the 
mountains, the scenery is dreary and consists of 
stretches of fir and spruce trees broken only by 
rushing streams and an occasional valley, where 
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