. Rod and gun. in the World. BY DR. N. A. POWELL. B5 [HEN a man, by words or otherwise,indicates a belief that his wife is thebest in the world, few are so criticalas to ask if he has seen all the others. I trust that similar courtesy will be ex-tended to me when Iclaim for the Missis-sagua trip an absol-ute pre-eminence inall that delights acanoeist. It begins at Bis-cotasing on the mainline of the CanadianPacific Railway westof Sudbury and cur-ves and wandersthrough a chain oflakes, bays and riv-ers till the height of land is reached. The portages here are justlong enough to make luxurious t
. Rod and gun. in the World. BY DR. N. A. POWELL. B5 [HEN a man, by words or otherwise,indicates a belief that his wife is thebest in the world, few are so criticalas to ask if he has seen all the others. I trust that similar courtesy will be ex-tended to me when Iclaim for the Missis-sagua trip an absol-ute pre-eminence inall that delights acanoeist. It begins at Bis-cotasing on the mainline of the CanadianPacific Railway westof Sudbury and cur-ves and wandersthrough a chain oflakes, bays and riv-ers till the height of land is reached. The portages here are justlong enough to make luxurious the restand smoke after each portage when the lastback-load has been stowed in its waitingcanoe. The trail over the height of land is said to be only half a mile long. Measured by the strain on the tumplines it seems to be in addition about a mile skyward. Now *ve enter the head waters of theMississauga andfor the next onehundred and fiftymiles the river andlake scenery varieslike the changes ina kaleido sc Moose and deer watch from the banks as we ap- proach and quite often are only frightened back in-some of us. to the forest when the camera, at shortrange, has fixed its memory of the inter-view. The shores are fringed to the watersedge with birch or spruce or alder. Be-hind these rise pine forests which have THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CANOE TRIP IN THE WORLD. 415. never known axe or fire. Granite massestower to the height of three to four hund-red feet and show on certain aspectserosion due to glacial action. Quietstretches of river are few in number, forthe most part swift water and rapidsalternate with falls around which theportage paths, worn smooth by centuriesof use by moccasined feet, wind andtwist in search of the easiest grades. The highest and most beautiful of all—Aubrey Falls—in a series of broken cas-cades has a total drop of one hundredand sixty-five feet. The rapids we tryto divide into two classes :—those whichcan be run and those which cannot. Thatmistakes
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