made off Saginaw to a depth of 1800 feet, yet no bottom found. Superior is more shallow, and its water is in many places very transparent. More than 200 rivers flow into it, pouring in the drainage of 100,000 square miles of land, thus feeding the largest body of fresh water in the world. A young engineer engaged upon the Government survey, told me that he had coasted it 220 miles in an open boat. Through the clear waters he could see veins of lead, copper and silver, run from shore into the Lake. The wild cliffs surrounding, have been exposed for ages to winds and waves; mineral matter exuding from above, has colored the bluffs with strange shapesmade still stranger and more weird by the play of stormcurrent, the grip of winter cold, and the growth of lichens. To all who journey on the Lake they are known as the "Pictured Rocks.

All along the northern shores of Lake Superior, extends the hunting grounds which have been recently surrendered to the Dominion by the Hudson's Bay Company. The most valuable lands of Canada are as yet almost undeveloped. They are situated in the North West, extending from the head of Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains. Millions of acres of prairie-lands, are as yet roamed only by herds of buffalo and elk. They may not show signs of auriferous deposit, but they possess those treasures which are infinitely more permanent in giving stability to a colony; viz rich virgin soil, and coal measures. The possession of such prizes entitle this belt of territory to the rank of "golden." Unfortunately it has too long remained isolated from the older provinces. From Toronto to Fort Garry settlement is about 1,100 miles, and as yet there is no direct means of communication. Government are now taking the matter in hand and are going to spend £1,000,000 (i.e.) half a million in opening up a road and half a million in helping emigrants to settle there.

for two or three days without food, and have been spared to tell the tale of a merciful preservation.

Then come marvellous displays of "Northern Lights." Indian superstition has it that these coruscations of flame are caused by the spirits of the dead dancing before the throne of their Manitou; a more natural imagination than that of "darkies," who when asked how the stars were made, replied that they were old moons cut up, and fixed in the sky.

Since writing the foregoing, trouble has come opon Red River Settlement. Its residents have refused to receive the Governor appointed by the Dominion. Insurrection has been the order of the day in Lord Selkirk's hitherto peaceful colony. We believe that order will soon be restored. Incorporation with Canada promises the best future for Fort Garry. Ultimately the settlers will have no ground for murmur. No one can traverse the prairie-lands of "Golden Belt"-their inheritance-without feeling how free a life the people lead. Summer breezes are not more unfettered amongst the wild-flowers and maize, than will be the sway of individual liberty in Red River Scotch-Saxendom. In a short time Ottawa will be able to assure the world that “the Dominion is Peace." Englishmen will say, "All's well that ends well." (April, 1870.)

COULEUR DE ROSE.

E turn away from the Dominion with two grand impressions left upon our mind-the natural capabilities of the land, and the future in store for it. The vast regions of British North America comprise an area of 4,109,636 square miles, of which the land portion contains nearly one-ninth part of the surface of the globe. Its productions are most varied. On the coast and round the famous "banks" of Newfoundland the ocean is a storehouse of wealth to the fisherman. Everywhere there is a dowry of timber-lands, probably such as no other country possesses. We know, as yet, only in part the value of mineral wealth which is entombed among its hills-granites and marbles, limestone and slate. We have scarcely explored the region of Superior, with its veins of copper and silver, cobalt and lead. Geologists tell us of coal measures in the plains of the North West which will last for many an age to come. But the backbone of Canada's certain greatness is its agricultural resources. While under the icy shadow of the Polar circle there is a broad belt of land suitable only for Esquimaux, and such as are satisfied to dwell amid perpetual winter; there are, in the lap of the Golden Belt, millions of acres of virgin soil awaiting ploughman and sower. The broad lands of the Saskatchewan which now produce luxuriant grasses for herds of buffalo and deer, would more gladly raise the "staff of life" for man; were he there to instruct and foster.