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squirrels are numerous. The beaver, formerly met with, is now unknown. Black bears and foxes (particularly the silver-gray and black varieties) are rare, and the wild-cat or lynx, once found, is now extinct. Wolves have been known to cross the Northumberland Straits on the ice to the

Island.

“One of the finest churches in the Lower Provinces."

Forestry.~The forests of Prince Edward Island, once extensive and mantling the country to the water’s edge, now consist of small isolated areas. The woodman’s axe, forest fires and the fore-time prosperous ship-building industry have swept away “the forest primeval," leaving but insig- nificant growths of the cone-bearing, soft-wood species, the commonest being the balsam fir or var, and spruce; and