There is a pleasing water View at Orangedale, with a charming vista of green shores stretching out to the lake. The first impression of the Bras d'Or Lake is one of peaceful calm, as the evening sun crimsons the broad and far-reaching expanse of water.

The Great Bras d'Or Lake is about 45 miles long and nearly 20 miles wide. It is very deep in nearly every part of it, varying from 90 to 350 feet. In one place a depth of 1200 feet has been found, just a short distance from the shore. Old maps and references give the name ”Labrador” for this beautiful lake. It may also be mentioned that Nicholas Denys published a book in Paris in the latter half of the seventeenth century in which he refers to the Bras d’Or Lake as ” Le Lac de Labrador.” The present name is undoubt- edly founded on the old one. It is almost identical in pronunciation, too; and as it has a meaning, “arm of gold,” that describes the ap- pearance of the lake at sunrise and sunset, it has come into general use.

The Little Bras d’Or Lake, exclusive of channels, is about ten miles long; its breadth nearly six miles. It has a depth of 700 feet in places. Two peninsulas nearly meet at the Grand Narrows and thus almost separate the Great from the Little Bras d'Or. The two lakes are called the Bras d’Or Lakes; but because their waters communicate so that a passage from one to the other may easily be made through the Grand Narrows channel, the Whole water system is now frequently called the Bras d’Or Lake.

The Bras d’Or Lake is really an inland sea, or, more correctly, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. In the waters of the upper or smaller of the two lakes is the long and narrow island, Boularderie, some 28 miles long, and nearly three miles Wide at its northern end, where it fronts on the Atlantic. East and west of it are channels or inlets from the ocean. That on the east, tide-swept and impassable for large boats, is the Little Bras d’Or or St. Andrews channels. The wider channel on the west side may be traversed by any vessel afloat, as it has a depth of from thirty to two hundred feet. Both channels lead south through the Grand Narrows into the larger of the two lakes, where at the southern end the narrow isthmus has been cut, and where a canal with locks enables vessels to pass in and out.

It has been said of the Bras d’Or that it is the most beautiful salt—water lake ever seen. The substance of Warner’s comment is seen to be true by all who visit these shores. “The water runs into lovely bays and lagoons, having slender tongues of land and pic- turesque islands. It has all the pleasantness of a fresh-water lake,

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