McEachern declined. saying he wished the young man and his wife well. but that he would not be present at an entertainment given in honour of a Campbell. one of that house who were the hereditary enemies of his clan. In the centre of the graveyard stands a mission cross. marking the presence of the Redemptorists in 188A.

In connection with the church of St. Columba are the Sodality of the scapular of Mount Carmel, numbering seven hundred and seventy five members. the Conrraternity of the Sacred Heart. established in 1885, and numbering five hundred and fifteen members. and St. Columba's Catholic Total Abstinence Society which has on its roll of membership the names of three hundred and fifty-five men.

Until Bishop FhEachern opened his road to the East Point the people of St. Columba's had no way of travelling but by water if we except a road blazed by the Indians through the forest. from the north shore to the Nest River. This road was usually taken by Bishop NbEachern when coming from Rollo Bay to St. Columba ' s.

A pecularity of this district is its beautiful water scenery. A short distance from the church on the north side is a body of fresh water a mile and a half long and half a mile broad. called the NOrth Lake. In the time of the French occupation there was a natural channel connecting this lake with the Gulf and it then formed a harbour for large vessels. The entrance, however. gradually became choked with sand, rendering it impassible. About the year 1855 the people living in the vicinity cut a canal through the sand bar. so as to admit of the entrance of their fishing beads. but storms soon came. and the sand drifted in and packed closely, so that there is now a firm and level roadway where the merchant vessels of St. Malo once rode at anchor. This lake is the home of splendid specimens of the tinny tribe. and here every summer nany tourists come in search of the speckled trout. Three miles from the North Lake lies the South Lake. which is three miles long and about half a mile broad; it runs parallel with the

gulf shore, from which it is only separated by a broad sand bar. Driving west-

ward from the South Lake the North and West Rivers are crossed, both beautiful