. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . kand Round Top. One of the sights of the region is The Clove,or ravine, and the falls therein. This ravine is about five mileslong; at its head two rivulets unite and flow rapidly to a pointwhere the mountain divides and for
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . kand Round Top. One of the sights of the region is The Clove,or ravine, and the falls therein. This ravine is about five mileslong; at its head two rivulets unite and flow rapidly to a pointwhere the mountain divides and forms a deep hollow, into whichthe brook rushes over a cascade of 180 feet. OTTAWA. 43 077AWA, /^ATTAWA, the political capital of the Dominion of Canada, isvPv# most picturesquely situated at the junction of the Rideau ^O- River with the Ottawa. Next to Quebec, the sceneryaround Ottawa is the most beautiful in the Dominion. The rangeof mountains which closes in the horizon to the north and east isthe last of the picturesque chain of the Laurentides; from thesummer house on Parliament Hill the view is one not easily for-gotten. The broad river below the hills glowing in the sunset, theChaudiere white with spray, and the magnificent pile of publicbuildings, all contribute to form a most striking landscape. TheChaudiere Falls, a pleasant drive from Ottawa, are considered. RAFTS IN THE RAPIDS. by many to rank next in importance, beauty and grandeur to thoseof Niagara, and the cataract is remarkable enough to have im-pressed even the stolidity of the Indians; for in old days theyalways threw a little tobacco into the Chaudiere (the name signi-fying a caldron) before commencing the portage to the quiet at hand are the timber slides, by which the lumber fromthe upper river passes down without damage to the navigable waterbelow. To go down these slides upon a crib or timber is aunique experience a visitor should endeavor to make; for while itis unattended with danger, the nove
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