. Routes and rates for summer tours . where hops or grand balls are given nearly everyevening during the season, the music being especially fine. The illuminations at night at Alexandria Bay are strikingly beautiful. Electric and coloredlights in profusion illuminate the hotels and cottages, and the effect on the water, with its myriadof shimmering reflections, is grand and beautiful. The view from the ver^ndas of the hotels broadens into a magnificent panorama of the count-less features of the St. Lawrence River scenery. The Royal Mail Line of steamers, en route toand from Toronto, Montreal,
. Routes and rates for summer tours . where hops or grand balls are given nearly everyevening during the season, the music being especially fine. The illuminations at night at Alexandria Bay are strikingly beautiful. Electric and coloredlights in profusion illuminate the hotels and cottages, and the effect on the water, with its myriadof shimmering reflections, is grand and beautiful. The view from the ver^ndas of the hotels broadens into a magnificent panorama of the count-less features of the St. Lawrence River scenery. The Royal Mail Line of steamers, en route toand from Toronto, Montreal, Quebec and the River Saguenay, ride by in stately majesty. At ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. 83 intervals the steamers of the White Squadron, to and from Clayton, Cape Vincent and Kings-ton, and daily lines of steamers to Clayton, Morristown, Brockville, Ogdensburg, and variousother ports along the river, pass in review as they speed along on their way from resort to resortor from the Great Lakes to the Lower St. THOUSAND IS LANDS—NEAR ALEXANDRIA BAY. Alexandria Bay is a favorite port for taking the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Companyssteamers for Montreal. Many passengers who arrive at Clayton on the Steamboat Express, preferto go from Cla^ton to Alexandria Bay by a steamer of the Thousand Island Steamboat Company,and there change to the Richelieu Line steamers, as the steamers of the Thousand Island Steam-boat Company, en route from Clayton to Alexandria Bay, pass through the most interesting portionof the St. Lawrence. Alexandria Bay is one of the favorite resorts on the St. Lawrence River for fishermen. Theluncheon put up at the hotels at this point is delicious and satisfying, and full) carries out the ideaexpressed in the description of the fishing trip on page 72 of this book. The oarsmen at Alex-andria Bay are expert and courteous. Particular attention is given by the hotel proprietors to allminor details pertaining to fishing parties and islan
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