Meanderings among a thousand islands; . ily toss a peb-ble to either shore, we enter the more open and usual channelwhere a sharp turn to the left shows us a light house about twomiles ahead, a wide stretch of water dotted with Islands all about^but no visible opening through the forest covered, rock-boundland, which to all api^earance completely blocks the way. WellsIsland lies at the right, the Canadian main at the left, on both ofwhich a few scattered farm houses and fenced fields betoken partialcultivation. Just before reaching the light house a little clusterof Islands appear on the right
Meanderings among a thousand islands; . ily toss a peb-ble to either shore, we enter the more open and usual channelwhere a sharp turn to the left shows us a light house about twomiles ahead, a wide stretch of water dotted with Islands all about^but no visible opening through the forest covered, rock-boundland, which to all api^earance completely blocks the way. WellsIsland lies at the right, the Canadian main at the left, on both ofwhich a few scattered farm houses and fenced fields betoken partialcultivation. Just before reaching the light house a little clusterof Islands appear on the right, and just past these the shore ofWells Island rajjidly recedes, and appears to meet the land frombelow at an exceeding rocky and jjrecipitous ]part near the end ofa narrow bay. JSTo definite opening is here f isible, in that direc-tion, but a reference to the map shows a narrow passage, which isreally not more than a mans long leaj) across. It is the THE ISLAND WANDERER. 33 INLET TO THE LAKE OF THE ISLAND, down which water rushes with. current sufficient to turn amill, whichmight there bebuilt with oneend each inCanada andtheState of NewYork, and notbe a very largemill either.—The magnifi-cent cluster infront and onboth s i d e s isconsidered oneof the finest, ifnot the veryfinest in the St. Lawrence. The islands are generally well wooded, and you will thinkthem gems of the first water. The entire Canada water at thispoint is not much more than a mile in breadth and gradually con-tracts for about one and a half miles, and in that space are abouteighty Islands, some of which are of considerable size and in partialcultivation. They seem as if placed here for the express purposeof damming the stream and disputing the passage of the water,which howevrr, finds its way in many narrow and intricate passages,generally w^itli a rapid current, to the open water below. Fromthe broad channel in which we have been sailing, we enter anarrow pass of troubled waters, between the beetling ]:
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