'Entrance to Thousand Islands', 1874. An artist sketching at Thousand Islands, an archipelago of 1,864 islands in the Saint Lawrence River, on the Canada-US border. '...the Thousand Islands number one thousand six hundred and ninety-two, as may be ascertained in the Treaty of Ghent!...our her way through the thirty-nine miles which they thickly intersperse. In size they differ much, however, some being only a few yards in extent, and others several miles. The verdure on most of them is limited to a sturdy growth of fir and pine, with occasionally some scrubby undergrowth, whi
'Entrance to Thousand Islands', 1874. An artist sketching at Thousand Islands, an archipelago of 1,864 islands in the Saint Lawrence River, on the Canada-US border. '...the Thousand Islands number one thousand six hundred and ninety-two, as may be ascertained in the Treaty of Ghent!...our her way through the thirty-nine miles which they thickly intersperse. In size they differ much, however, some being only a few yards in extent, and others several miles. The verdure on most of them is limited to a sturdy growth of fir and pine, with occasionally some scrubby undergrowth, which sprouts with northern vigor from crevices in the rocky bed'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]
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