Daily camera., 1900-12-06
WESTERN BEETSUGAR TREMBLING MOUNT
PEAK NEAR MONTREAL WELL
WORTH VISITING.
Height Of the Mountain Determined ~
2,4OO Fost-Eastsrn United States Has
Nothing to surpass the Panorama
Viewed from Its Top. Q

In a speech delivered in Victoria, B.
c., Lord Dufferin once described
Canadas most western province as q
sea Of mountains. 1t has been consid-
cred happy expression. and no doubt
1t was, though the true sea of noun
tains is, after all, the Laurentian
range. The peaks of British Columbia
are too sharp, too soaring and too
rocky to convey very accurate i'm
preston OF waves, but the Laurentians
are SO rounded, so regularly inter-
vailed, and of tint, under summer
skies, which II such q wonderful imi-
tation of old oceans blue, that the
traveller on looking down upon them
for the frst time will almost certainly
notice their resemblance to swelling
billows. The greatest obstacle to en-
joying the illusion, or rather such op-
portunity to grasp an adequate con-
ception Of the I.aurentians as they
really are. is the difficulty of finding .
point of vantage. Eartbs Oldest range,
|; for such we are told by geologists Is
probably the truth, possesses few con-
spicuously lofty peaks, the hills be-
ing singularly regular in altitude, SO
that points Of observation from which
a study OF the range may be made are
few a far between Montreal IL,
howev 'rtunate in having one Of
these observatories at NO great
distance. rembling Mountain, whose
base Is two and half miles from. the
station Of the same name on the La
belle branch. is the most elevated
summit Of the Laurentians in this part
OF the range. Quite recently its height
has been determined at 2,400 feet Az
all its companions are mere hillocks
by comparison. the view is uninter-
rupted. and the eye sweeps over miles
and miles of these forest covered
northern Laurentides. Americans
boast, and with reason, Of their White
Mountains. Adirondacks,an and Catskills;
but in all New York and New England
there is nothing to surpass the pano-
rama spread rs scroll beneath the
weary feet Of the pilgrim who stands
at length, blown, but happy, amid the
blueberry bushes on Trembling Noun
tain's SCARED old crest. Unlike the
Innocent Abroad, an explorer OF the
mountain will find no guide to point
heavenward to the lofty peak and
splutteT: 'Zer wis re haut can be?"
b,,, to ~th 40
will be often in his mind as he strug-
giles doggedly up the steep slope.
Trembling Lake at the foot of the
mountain is 734 feet above sea level.
thus the ascent means climbing 1900
feet Unfortunately the path that
must be followed is not direct one
on the contrary, it resembles Brer
Rabbits doublirgs when he endea-G--
ed to escape the too assiduous atten-
tions of Brer Fox. Windfalls have to
be lodged. and rock falls avoided, all
Of such deviations consuming time,
and making the climb much longer
one than would be the case IL few
hundred dollars were spent in opening
up one VI luc dtti podho
in the province Trembling Mountain
station, ninety-one miles from Mon
treal, is the gateway to the park. A
drive of two and a half miles over an
unusually good country road, leads to
the lake, just where the latter spills
its surplus waters into the Discharge,
by a leap Of some forty feet. This
Discharge eventually helps to swell
the Devils river. 1t contains great
store of pike, and some very heavy
red trout, but the smaller fry are ae-
sent, owing to the esteem In which
they are held by the said pike. Hap
PLY these fresh water sharks have
never found their way into the lake.
or into any of its feeders; were they
to do so, its grand trout fishing would
be in serious danger.-Montreal Her
aid and Star.