Rod and gun . are to be seen busy makingup supplies. Here a crazy stage tookus a half a mile to the Dock where a UP THE MAGNETAWAN 277 tiny steamer lay, and then be^an a won-derful journey down a veritable river ofdreams. The name, Maganetawan, is betterthan most real names—but not at alladequate. Nothing is adequate for thisriver that does not spell utter silence andpeace. I shall never forget the first breath ofthat solitude, when, released from thedusty train, we stood at the bow of thelittle boat, and, in spirit at least, swamout into the silence. suggestion of sound: a sheeps bell farawav
Rod and gun . are to be seen busy makingup supplies. Here a crazy stage tookus a half a mile to the Dock where a UP THE MAGNETAWAN 277 tiny steamer lay, and then be^an a won-derful journey down a veritable river ofdreams. The name, Maganetawan, is betterthan most real names—but not at alladequate. Nothing is adequate for thisriver that does not spell utter silence andpeace. I shall never forget the first breath ofthat solitude, when, released from thedusty train, we stood at the bow of thelittle boat, and, in spirit at least, swamout into the silence. suggestion of sound: a sheeps bell farawav, the kiss of leaves in the wood, thelapping of water on a rock. But onlythe most magic have this, for fewsilences can bear the slightest foot-fallof sound. And this was a magic silence into whichwe glided, for it was fragrant, murmur-ous,—intense. We were at the begin-ning of a river journey which wouldcarry us, did we follow it, along hun-dreds of miles of water-way into thevery heart of Western Another View from Echo Rock, Lako Cecebe, Highlands of Ontario, Grand Trunk Railway System. There is such a difference in silences—have you ever noticed it? Painterscan find all sorts of varying tints andshades in white, and so I think, to themystic, there are a thousand differentdegrees in silence. Some silences are just of the air—theyseem to be made up of light and ether—and to some are added a tincture of per-fume, to others a shaft of color, to a few,the most tragic of all perhaps, just a The Maganetawan is just fifteen mileslong, but it leads into Lake Cecebewhich forms the next link, a matter often miles, then locks, three miles moreof ri\-er, then Lake Ahmic, twelve milesacross, from here the Great River, an-other twelve miles, to Lake Wa-wa-Rech, and thence to Byng Inlet aboutfifty miles away on the Georgian Bay—and from the Georgian Bay? Why—youknow the rest! 2/8 ROD AXD GUX IX CAXADA Of course there are porta,s;es—nearlytwenty in all I should think
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