. Rod and gun . is no spot on this continent which occu-pies such a commanding position ofsplendid isolation as the Kipawa andTemiskaming Lake District. Here is avirgin wild, easy of access, in the heartof New Ontario, and skirting the wilderportion of the good old Province of Que-bec. It is a district of magnificent waterstretches, virtually teeming with fish;while its forests are yet alive with gameof every variety from the partridge to thestately moose. It is a district rich in thelore and the legend of the Redman, andits rivers and lakes bear the soft-soundingnames of the Ojibway tongue. A
. Rod and gun . is no spot on this continent which occu-pies such a commanding position ofsplendid isolation as the Kipawa andTemiskaming Lake District. Here is avirgin wild, easy of access, in the heartof New Ontario, and skirting the wilderportion of the good old Province of Que-bec. It is a district of magnificent waterstretches, virtually teeming with fish;while its forests are yet alive with gameof every variety from the partridge to thestately moose. It is a district rich in thelore and the legend of the Redman, andits rivers and lakes bear the soft-soundingnames of the Ojibway tongue. Apartfrom the rugged beauty of the scenerythe chief charm of the district for manywill be in the fact that man has not placedhis despoiling hand upon it. It is a sec-tion where a man virtually steps from atrain at the terminus of civilization andwalks direct into a wilderness — and sucha wilderness ! such a riot of flowers ! sucha majesty of forest and such an intertwin-ing of placid lakes and beautiful Guests on ine Verandah of the Bellevue, Temiskaming. It is as if Nature moulded it in the super-lative degree. The Kipawa and Temiskaming- districtforms a section of the Laurentian rangeand its altitude ensures that clarified airwhich brings strength to weak lungs andsoothing to tired nerves. The atmos-phere is everywhere redolent with thegrateful perfume of the balsam and thefir, and over all these is a grandeur ofbeauty that is an inspiration to content-ment. The Kipawa and Temiskaming Lakedistrict, which comprises some thousandsof square miles of primeval wild, is bound-ed on the south by the Ottawa river, onthe west by Lake Temiskaming, which isreally an expanse of the same river, andon the north by the Ottawa river. Itlies north of Lake Ontario, and due northof Buffalo. Temiskaming station is therail-end of the Canadian Pacific Railwaybranch line from Mattawa, and the tripfrom the latter place carries one throughforty miles of as picturesque country ascould well b
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