. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . will always be a favoriteresidence. Picturesque martello towers rise from the water, andare posted along the environs of the town to where Fort Henry, onthe hill to the southward, dominates the landscape. The traces ofthe ol
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . will always be a favoriteresidence. Picturesque martello towers rise from the water, andare posted along the environs of the town to where Fort Henry, onthe hill to the southward, dominates the landscape. The traces ofthe old French fort built by Frontenac are still visible, THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. 45 THE 7H0tf8flM0 ISLANDS. T?)N descending the St. Lawrence from Kingston by the RICHE-JT LIEU & ONTARIO NAVIGATION STEAMERS the far-^L famed Thousand Islands are reached. There are in realitysome 1800 of them, packed in a river stretch of 40 miles, and thereis no more favored summer resort in America than Amid the thousand Isles that seemThe joy and glory of the stream. The width of the river is here about seven miles, the rockywood-clad group of islets separating the deep, strong-runningchannels. Imagine a vast English park with its massive trees, its hills andslopes, and its laps of verdure. Replace its green turf with water,blue, transparent and crystaline. Over an area twelve leagues. THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. long and two or three wide, on which ever side you turn your eyesyou see nothing but islands of every kind and form—some raisingtheir pyramidal heads boldly above the water, others lying justabove the level of the river as if bowed to receive its blessing as itpassed. Some are bristling with firs and pines, others lie openand level like a field awaiting the husbandmans care. Some arebut an arid rock, as wild and picturesque as those seen among theFaroe Islands; others have a group of trees or a solitary pine, andothers bear a crown of flowers or a little hillock of verdure like adome of malachite
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