The lofty mountain ranges on both sides stretched away into the blue distance, and the slopes of one, and the peak of another, were smoking like volcanoes, the timber being on fire. N'ear us the groves upon the headlands, solitary trees, rich shrubbery, graceful rushes, the clustering moose-head and water-lily, and the gorgeous cloud-pictures, were perfectly reflected, and produced a scene such as the mortal eye seldom beholds. The sun weut down, the vision faded ; and, sweeping around a long, marshy point, we drew our boats upon a pebbly shore at

* This is the account of the origiu of its name, given by the French Jesuits who first explored that region. Otliers say that its Indian name, Ni-ha-na-wa-te, means a racket, or noise -- noisy river, and spell it liacket. But it is no more noisy than its near neigliboiu', the Grass River which flows into the St. Lawrence from the bosom of the same wilderness.

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twilight, at the foot of a pine-bluff, and proceeded to erect a camp for the night. No human habitation was near, excepting the bark cabin of Bowcn, the " Hermit of Long Lake," wliose history we have not space to record.

Our camp was soon constructed. The g-uides selected a pleasant spot near the foot of a lofty pine, placed two erotched sticks perpendicularly in the ground, about eight feet apart, laid a stout pole horizontally across

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them, placed others against it in position like the rafters of half a roof, one end upon the ground, and covered the whole and both sides with the boughs of the hemlock and pine, leaving the front open. The ground was then strewn with the delicate sprays of the hemlock and balsam, making a sweet and pleasant bed. A few feet from the front they built a huge fire, and prepared supper, which consisted of broiled partridges