. Bird-nesting in north-west Canada . Land and forests are around him all the time. The travellernow gets a glimpse of the beautiful, after passing throughhundreds of miles of unutterable dreariness. He is near thedividing line of the Laurentian and the alluvial regions ; andbefore he bids farewell to the Laurentides they burst intoscenes of rare picturesqueness. At Rat Portage the Lake ofthe Woods is drained by the Winnipeg river, which formsnumerous cascades and water-falls in its descent. At theeastern falls the river, compressed between beautifully-stainedgranite rocks, rushes impetuously
. Bird-nesting in north-west Canada . Land and forests are around him all the time. The travellernow gets a glimpse of the beautiful, after passing throughhundreds of miles of unutterable dreariness. He is near thedividing line of the Laurentian and the alluvial regions ; andbefore he bids farewell to the Laurentides they burst intoscenes of rare picturesqueness. At Rat Portage the Lake ofthe Woods is drained by the Winnipeg river, which formsnumerous cascades and water-falls in its descent. At theeastern falls the river, compressed between beautifully-stainedgranite rocks, rushes impetuously into a boiling caldron,[at theside of which is a quiet eddy where an Indian is seen with ahand net scooping up magnificent white fish. The westernfall is a long, broad rapid with a drop of five feet. Thesefalls are only the first of an almost interminable series ofrapids and cataracts down which the river leaps on its way tothe great Lake Winnipeg. A canoe trip with Indians fromRat Portage down to Lake Winnipeg is frequently taken by. In No7th-WeM Canada. 15 a friend of mine who lives in Winnipeg. He describes thescenery as being exceedingly fine, and the sport along thebanks of the river and amongst the numerous islands is verygood. Here he has shot bears, deer, foxes, and smaller animalswhich now adorn his museum in Winnipeg. Leaving Rat Portage, for fifty[miles we pass through a lakedistrict. The lakes are all wooded, with numerous rockyislands, the same character as the Lake of the Woods. Afterpassing Whitemouth river the railway leaves the Laurentidesand strikes through swampy woods, the country flattens outand gradually assumes the characteristics of the prairie. Inthe vicinity of Rennie and Monmouth stations the forestsabound with game, and it is an excellent country for Moose,the greatest of Canadian deer. Black bears are also numer-ous, and I saw several alive in Winnipeg that had beencaptured in these forests. My Winnipeg friend was onceshooting birds in the woods whe
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