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MILITARY PICTURE SERIES NO. 22-A TRAINLOAD OF WAGGONS FOR THE FRONT.
SCENE IN CAPETOWN AND DURBAN.

A FAMILIAR

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MILITARY PICTURE SERIES NO. 23-THE STOEP OR VERANDAH OF 22 CAMP ST., CAPETOWN,
THE RESIDENCE OF HON. J. H. HOFMEYER, PRESIDENT OF THE AFRIKANDER BOND.
A SPOT WHERE IMPORTANT MEETINGS HAVE BEEN HELD.

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MILITARY PICTURE SERIES NO. 24-A NAVAL 12-POUNDER. NOTE THE LENGTH OF THE GUN AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CARRIAGE, BOTH BEING VERY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF THE ORDINARY 12-POUNDER FIELD GUN,

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MILITARY PICTURE SERIES NO. 24-A WRECKED ARMOURED TRAIN. FROM A SKETCH BY AN ARTIST WITH GENERAL BULLER'S ARMY,

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The GEORGIAN BAY ARCHIPELAGO

By W. R. Bradshaw.

NE of the rarest pleasures of a holiday-outing is to abandon one'sself to primeval nature, to the splendour of lakes embosomed in surrounding hills, or to the labyrinthine mazes of an archipelago, where every island. presents a new picture to the eye, and fresh food for contemplation.

It would be impossible to duplicate the opportunities for a tour through wild scenery afforded by that part of the Highlands of Ontario which abuts on Georgian Bay. Here the splendours of the aboriginal forest are more than equalled by the endless charms of a belt of lake studded with some thirty thousand islands, stretching from Christian Island, on the south, to French River, the outlet of Lake Nipissing on the north, and beyond through the beyond through the North Channel to the Sault Ste. Marie.

I do not over-state the fact when I say, that in these splendid solitudes the lover of nature is treated to a Barmecide feast of wild loveliness.

Visitors to this region invariably make the Muskoka lakes their first destination. These are situate 112 miles due north of Toronto, the focus of tourist travel from the east, south and west, and the natural gateway of the Ontario Highlands. From Toronto to Muskoka wharf is a journey of only a few hours by the Grand Trunk Railway. Here the tourist is introduced to a trinity of lakes, Lake Muskoka, Lake Rosseau and Lake Joseph, whose enchantments allure thousands of tourists every succeeding season

from within a radius of a thousand miles.

He who has once felt the extraordinary charm of these glorious lakes will ever remain a slave to their fascinations. The virgin splendour of islands, bays and promontaries that characterize these lakes of most fantastic outline; the brightness, dryness and extreme healthfulness of the climate; and the unequalled facilities for hunting, fishing, camping and social recreation, make the Muskoka region the Mecca of holiday wanderers.

But the joys of the lake region are more than duplicated by an excursion to the wilderness beyond, to that ultima thule known as Georgian Bay, with its labyrinth of islands, the climax of Muskoka's charms. He who catches a breath of the fragrance wafted from these enchanted isles will know better

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A NORTHERN ONTARIO RIVER.

than language can teach the poetic meaning of the legend of the Hesperides.

One route to Georgian Bay is by way of Port Cockburn, at the head of Lake Joseph. A stage carries passengers to Maple Lake, on the Canada Atlantic Railway which runs to Parry Sound. The tourist in search of the picturesque had better walk thither, or rather walk to Rankin's Station, in a north-westerly direction, a distance of ten miles, to obtain an intimate impression of the beauty of the Canadian forest.

The road leads through a densely wooded region, extending to infinite distance on the north and east, a forest of pine, hemlock, spruce, balsam, cedar, maple, oak, birch, juniper and tamarack.

Ah! what glorious breaths of air one inhales in these resinous solitudes! There is potency in every inspiration.

The infinite white sunlight touches every tree with its beauty, and even the dull road becomes an Elysian pathway, leading to unknown enchantments beyond.

The fundamental rock hereabouts is a disorganized upheaval of what geologists believe was the first sedimentary deposit from the primary granite in primordial seas. It is a gneissoid

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