. The picturesque Rideau route ... through the most charming scenery in America. hed. Its shores are high andrugged, and the scenery wild. The steamer glides through a little isthmus andinto Clear Lake, a small body of water surrounded by white granite hills, andlater through Fiddlers Elbow, a mystifying place, into Newboro Lake, which isdotted with beautiful islands of different sizes. Black and green bass are asplentiful here as pollywogs in a rain barrel. In the fall wild fowl are abundant. Touching at Newboro, a pretty village of 1,000 inhabitants, the boat is liftedby the last lock on the
. The picturesque Rideau route ... through the most charming scenery in America. hed. Its shores are high andrugged, and the scenery wild. The steamer glides through a little isthmus andinto Clear Lake, a small body of water surrounded by white granite hills, andlater through Fiddlers Elbow, a mystifying place, into Newboro Lake, which isdotted with beautiful islands of different sizes. Black and green bass are asplentiful here as pollywogs in a rain barrel. In the fall wild fowl are abundant. Touching at Newboro, a pretty village of 1,000 inhabitants, the boat is liftedby the last lock on the up-grade. She then passes through a cut a mile long,and into Little Rideau Lake, which is the summit level, or 161 feet above LakeOntario. At the head ot the lake is the village of Westport, 2,000 inhabitants,it is called the city of steeples, because of the number of churches that are insight from the deck of the steamer. The next body of water is Big Rideau, whichis twenty-one miles long, and varies in width from one to eight miles. There are The* Picturesque Rideau The Picturesque Rideau Route. 13 fully 200 islands in this lake, so that the scene it presents can be fairly Long Island is the famous club-house called Anglers Inn, owned by and some residents of New York. On many of the islands and the mainshore are beautiful summer cottages. Salmon trout are taken here on trawl,and large black bass are plentiful. Portland village is on the south shore, andhas about 500 inhabitants. After calling here, the next stopping place is GarrettsRest, on an island at the mouth of German Bay. Winding through the numerous islands, the steamer reaches the RockyNarrows, which has towering granite shores, and later Olivers Ferry. Thisplace is quite a settlement of pretty summer residences, among them that ofHon. Peter McLaren. Three miles from Olivers Ferry is the mouth of theRideau River, where may be seen the ruins of houses built by English officerswho
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