Rod and gun . ts way to tide water at Mon-treal. Algonquin National Park, lying in theheights of the celebrated Highlands ofOntario holds nearly 2,000,000 acres offorest, lake, river and wild. The railway line lies 1,631 feet abovethe sea, but the rocky heights reach upto an altitude of two thousand feet. Theatmosphere is pure and balmy, but alwayscool and refreshiug. A week here willcure hay fever, while one glance at GodsWorld in the rough is sufllicient to wardoff a Brain Storm. nothing so fair and bright and beautifuFas the World itself. And do you know, O gentle, but some-times conceited
Rod and gun . ts way to tide water at Mon-treal. Algonquin National Park, lying in theheights of the celebrated Highlands ofOntario holds nearly 2,000,000 acres offorest, lake, river and wild. The railway line lies 1,631 feet abovethe sea, but the rocky heights reach upto an altitude of two thousand feet. Theatmosphere is pure and balmy, but alwayscool and refreshiug. A week here willcure hay fever, while one glance at GodsWorld in the rough is sufllicient to wardoff a Brain Storm. nothing so fair and bright and beautifuFas the World itself. And do you know, O gentle, but some-times conceited reader, that the originaldwellers of this wilderness were absolute-ly honest ? Do you know that before wecame with our lofty airs, self-satisfied andflying the flag that ought to make us fitthe blood-stained banner of Prince-Amonualas I used to hear it from anexhorting uncle of mine, these peopleknew no guile. Do you know that to-this day despite our presence here, if wego far enough into the fastness, we come. ON LAKE, ALGONOriN NATIONAL PARK. surely to a place where men do not hidefrom men, but cache only against thefour legged animals ? Well, that is so. .^nd having said this little preachment,let us go back to Algonquin Park withits thousands of square miles of woodedwild and see what the white man isdoing. Under a loosly drawn contract, he hascome into possession of a Timber Limit,—though there is little or no limit to hisappetite for timber - - and he, his heir,successors and assignees,are laying vastacres of this forest waste and convertinsr many acres of it into a wilderness ofstumps. In the beginning, his instructionswere to limit his time and the size of thetimber which he might take but lately,as lumber increased in value he has beenmoving everything at an annual rental ofthree dollars per square mile. Recently the Provincial Fish andGame Commission together with a num-ber of M. P. Ps. including Hon. and Hon. Mr. Hanna, visitedthe Park and
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