"dwell to Haed and heald in Hocks, evidently these are the Keernati farms. I know all this material, Keernati is at 1080 elevation, there's also schist there. We were at the north end of the Lake of the Woods. Then one appears to get out of the granite for I see not often cuts along the R.R. Drift is far more common, but the endless succession of lakes continues. It is fine in the Observation car to see how are snake through the country and the front rushes off into the background. Houses are few and far between and farms there are almost none. When the train stops the town is a small one a railroad junction. This land of the Shield is for gold-diggers and miners and loggers to investigate, but the average man finds it hard to make a living out of it. Even the C.P.R. does not advertise it as it does all the western country. There is more snow this afternoon than anywhere else in trip and I'm near on my - of last mile. I retire at 9 P.M.