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The Country Across The Base of The Gaspe

Peninsula, and Some Superb Fishing Streams

AYING ‘Good—bye' to the hospitable shore of the St. Lawrence, and with mind well stored with pleasant memories of happy days and joyous hours, a course across the base of the Gaspé Peninsula is now taken by the line of the Inter- colonial Railway, which here makes a south-easterly dip to reach Matapedia at the head of the Baies de Chaleurs.

Regaining Little Métis station a good View of interesting country is obtained on the way to Kempt. Mountain ranges rise on each side, with high table land, bold slopes, and lines of hills running off to the north. The woods are beautiful, the white birches brightening up the various shades of forest green. Beyond Kempt the hills broaden out at times into wide plains marked by gentle undulations of rich green. Rocky cuttings, protected by high snow-fences, are passed, and soon a well- defined valley is reached that is quite narrow in places. At the left, for some distance, runs the river. Other rocky cuttings are entered. beyond which another valley, with the still-flowing river, is reached, After passing the little lumbering village of St. Moise the road again leads through the hills; higher and higher, with dense forest on every hand, and soon it is necessary to cut through their very midst.

At Sayabec the region of beautiful Lake Matapedia is reached, and at Cedar Hall is the most convenient stopping—place for seeing the lake and its scenery. Together with Amqui and Lac au Saumon these places are small lumbering centres. They all have fine sur- roundings, but the district has not been fully opened up, and only moderate accommoda- tion can be found.

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