Would space admit of it, and were paper not such an unreasonably
expensive commodity just now, I would like to speak of the glories
of a Canadian wood in May, with the ground flecked with red and
white trilliums; of the fields in British Columbia, gorgeous in
spring-time with blue lilies and drifts of rose-coloured
cyclamens; of the autumn woods in their sumptuous dress of
scarlet, crimson, orange, and yellow, the sugar-maples blazing
like torches against the dark firs; of the marvels of the three
ranges of the Rockies, Selkirks, and Cascades, and of the other
wonders of the great Dominion.
As boys, I and my youngest brother knew "Hiawatha's Fishing"
almost by heart, so I had an intense desire to see "Gitche Gumee,
the Big-Sea Water," which we more prosaically call Lake Superior,
the home of the sturgeon "Nahma," of "Ugudwash" the sun-fish, of
the pike the "Maskenozha," and the actual scene of Hiawatha's
fishing. To others, without this sentimental interest, the Great
Lakes might appear vast but uninteresting expanses of water,
chiefly remarkable for the hideous form of vessel which has been
evolved to navigate their clear depths.
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