Down North and Up Along 
expected to revel, in the free outdoor life of 
an untamed and beautiful land. 
One can have all the delights and discom- 
forts of pioneer life in Cape North with none 
of its dangers. 
Bay St. Lawrence is scooped out of the stony 
land between stone mountains that guard it to 
east and west. But the settlement near the 
shore is also called Bay St. Lawrence and is 
surrounded on three sides by the mountains 
and on the fourth by the sea. It is on a 
plateau of exquisitely rolling swells, for the 
most part grown over by soft tawny-white 
grass and spacious enough to give the effect 
of downs. It is a clean grassy amphitheatre 
shut from the world by mountains and sea. 
Close against the mountains that shut it 
from the eastern sea is McDougal's Cove, 
where are only three or four houses all sur- 
rounded by broad meadows, through which we 
could find no road but only waggon tracks 
going in all directions as if intending to lead 
the stranger astray and land him on the bank 
of the bridgeless brook that gurgles through 
these puzzling meadows. 
In approaching McDougal's Cove we 
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