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Traill, Catharine Parr, 1802-1899

"Canadian Crusoes"

LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
LOUIS CONFESSING HIS DECEPTION OF CATHARINE
THE FIRST BREAKFAST
CATHARINE FOUND BY THE OLD DOG
WOLF FINDING THE WOUNDED DOE
HECTOR BRINGING THE INDIAN GIRL
KILLING WILD FOWL
INDIAN WOMAN AT THE DOOR OF THE HUT
CATHARINE CARRIED OFF
INDIANA BEFORE THE BALD EAGLE
INDIANA AT THE STAKE
ATTACK ON THE DEER
RETURN HOME THE
CANADIAN CRUSOES.


CHAPTER I.
"The morning had shot her bright streamers on high,
O'er Canada, opening all pale to the sky;
Still dazzling and white was the robe that she wore,
Except where the ocean wave lash'd on the shore."
_Jacobite Song._
THERE lies between the Rice Lake and the Ontario, a deep and fertile
valley, surrounded by lofty wood-crowned hills, the heights of which were
clothed chiefly with groves of oak and pine, though the sides of the hills
and the alluvial bottoms gave a variety of noble timber trees of various
kinds, as the maple, beech, hemlock, and others. This beautiful and highly
picturesque valley is watered by many clear streams of pure refreshing
water, from whence the spot has derived its appropriate appellation of
"Cold Springs.


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