. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. ds adjacent are dotted withcottages, perched upon rocky bluffs, or nestling in some beautiful cove,springing into view as if by magic as the boat rounds a curve, or assum-ing shape and proportions as a nearer approach separates them fromthe rock of which they seem a part. Some of the islands are
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. ds adjacent are dotted withcottages, perched upon rocky bluffs, or nestling in some beautiful cove,springing into view as if by magic as the boat rounds a curve, or assum-ing shape and proportions as a nearer approach separates them fromthe rock of which they seem a part. Some of the islands are firs and pines, others lie open and level like a field awaiting thehusbandmans care. Some are but an arid rock, as and pictur-esque as those seen among the Faro Islands; others have a group oftrees or a solitary pine, and others bear a crown of flowers or a littlehillock of verdure like a dome of malachite, among which the riverslowly glides, embracing with equal fondness the great and the small,now receding afar and now retracing its course, like the good patriarchvisiting his domains, or like the god Proteus counting his snowy the old Indian days this beautiful extent of the river was calledManatoana, or Garden of the Great Spirit, and well might the the New York side, the two towns being directly opposite each former was named after General Brock, and has received the titleof the Queen City of the St. Lawrence. Its glittering towers andchurch spires give it an appearance of splendor, which the tourist willobserve as a peculiarity of the Canadian cities to be seen in this trip,the metal with whicli they are covered retaining its brightness in a re-mark iMc liLirc. liwiiiL; In tlu- pure and dry atmnspheru.
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