Down North and Up Along 
it. We now think it lay concealed behind the 
splendid headland that came up out of the sea 
at McDougal's Cove, and which no doubt is 
every whit as good as Cape North. Still — ! 
It was a noble bluff that we saw, and it vividly 
recalled Smoky's red front, though this mass 
rises almost perpendicularly. It is followed 
inland by another and similar uprising of red 
rock, and that by another, and so on and on, 
all of them sending great buttresses out toward 
the grassy plains and finally framing in the 
splendid amphitheatre of rolling meadow-land. 
The mountains surrounding Bay St. Law- 
rence are of bare rock. The fir-trees, the 
spruces and hemlocks, discreetly remain at their 
bases making a dark-green border to their 
bright-coloured walls. There is great beauty 
in the grim slopes of bare red rock ; the colour 
of them is amazing ; lichens and bushes, or it 
may be only the reflection of the afternoon 
light at different angles from the scarred sur- 
face, have made them beautiful beyond telling. 
There is a sense of space, of peace, and 
almost of awe in the presence of these strong 
slopes with the wide grassy plain at their base, 
and the feeling of vastness and isolation is in- 
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