the far away Cape North range of mountains, make a picture of 
     
     superb beauty. Franey's Chimney itself is no inconspicuous object, 
     
     being nearly 1400 feet high. A French cruiser once went ashore not 
     
     far from Money Point, and active tides were wont to throw up gold 
     
     coins from the wreck on to the strand. For some years people used 
     
     to go gold fishing, with long poles having the ends daubed with pitch 
     
     to which the coins adhered. Ingonish was known in French days 
     
     as Inganische, and relics of those days may still be found. There is 
     
     excellent bathing at Ingonish and it is a splendid place for a summer 
     
     vacation of a restful kind. Neil’s Harbor, Aspy Bay and Cape 
     
     North are usually reached by steamer, and inland from these places 
     
     will be found unexplored land where caribou and bear are still 
     
     found. This whole area, including Bay St. Lawrence, is beauti- 
     
     ful, and destined to become more and more frequented as hotels 
     
     are built and roads and other facilities are improved; and in due 
     
     time a railway will doubtless skirt the coast. 
     
    

    
     Out in the Atlantic in the direction of Newfoundland, about 
     
     15 miles north-east of Cape North, is the rocky island of St. Paul’s. 
     
     It is right in the highway of ocean travel to and from the Gulf of St. 
     
     Lawrence. Many wrecks have happened here, with the loss of thou- 
     
     sands of lives. A hundred years ago as seamen approached the 
     
     Island, they used to keep a look-out for the sight of the immense 
     
     flocks of sea-fowl known as the great auk. These birds, now ex- 
     
     tinct, used to keep inshore; and never ventured out to sea. They 
     
     were thus a sure indication of the proximity of land. They were 
     
     so innocent that sailors could draw near and capture them by the 
     
     boat-load. They were about as large as a goose, with short wings, 
     
     coal black head and back, white beneath, and a milk-white spot 
     
     under the right eye. Of negligible value 
     
     in those days, a stuffed specimen of 
     
     the great auk to-day is worth fifteen 
     
     hundred dollars. The island has now 
     
     lost most of its dangers, for the sailor 
     
     of to-day sees the bright flashes from 
     
     the lighthouse when nearly twenty miles 
     
     out at sea, while in thick weather he is 
     
     warned by the fog-gun. A splendid 
     
     series of drives may be taken from 
     
     Baddeck, by way of Hunter’s Mountain, 
     
     and through the \Vagamatcook or 
     
     Middle River district, by Lake O'Law, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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