Rod and gun . Whero EoUs tho Albany. I.\ THE LAND OF THE MOOSE BIRD rolls on to the sea. There before us laya long reach of the j\lbany, its surfacescintillating in the sunlight and its bosombroken into many channels by innumer-able islands wooded with the attractivefirs of the North. Ever and anon thesurface was disturbed by the muska-longe and the sturgeon, and on severaloccasions plover of many varieties, in-cluding the choice jellow legs of south-ern climes, fell victims to our fowlingpiece. From time to time the tepee poles shallows where the processes of cen-turies had hardened the clay
Rod and gun . Whero EoUs tho Albany. I.\ THE LAND OF THE MOOSE BIRD rolls on to the sea. There before us laya long reach of the j\lbany, its surfacescintillating in the sunlight and its bosombroken into many channels by innumer-able islands wooded with the attractivefirs of the North. Ever and anon thesurface was disturbed by the muska-longe and the sturgeon, and on severaloccasions plover of many varieties, in-cluding the choice jellow legs of south-ern climes, fell victims to our fowlingpiece. From time to time the tepee poles shallows where the processes of cen-turies had hardened the clay bottominto a stonelike formation. Themammoth of prehistoric times had trodunchallenged these silent valleys, deepand ancient. Before the age ofglaciers man of prehistoric formand figure preyed upon prehistoric ani-mals. The willows followed the ice age,flowers added to the charm of woodygrowth, birds of variegated plumage sangthe carnival of progress, and when. The Lonely Tepee and its Occupant on James Bay. and drying stages of deserted Indian en-campments passed before our gaze andat one point on a high blutt the lonelygrave of an Indian, heaped high withboulders to protect it from wild livingthings of the forest, bore mute testimonyto human mortality. Farther, still farther, into the silencesof the Albany our journey carried useach hour, through valleys which patientbut persistent time had cut in thehigh clay banks, past eminences and over wondrous changes wrought by time in itsfligiit had been accomplished, man, civil-ized, first looked upon these solitudes. O,mighty river! conceived in the flow ofglaciers, born of babbling brook and un-seen stream, whose pathway to the seahad already been won when there wereno Assyria or Chaldea, and antedating bycenturies the glories of Nineveh andTyre, thou art still the mysteriousflood that tlirough the silent sands hastwandered century on century. Yonder
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