. Summer tours via the Michigan central, "The Niagara Falls route" .. . , sailing, fishing or other forms of pleasming. A delightfultrip may be had by taking the Island Wanderer, which plys on an intricateroute between Alexandria Bay, Thousand Island Park, Round Island Park, Gan-anoque, and Westminster Park, through tortuous channels, and amidst theislands of innumerable shapes, sizes and character; but to hire a boat andwander at ooes owji sweet wijl through the mazes of this marvelous archipelago, The St. Lawrence River. 37 results in the highest and most unalloyed enjoyment. There are more
. Summer tours via the Michigan central, "The Niagara Falls route" .. . , sailing, fishing or other forms of pleasming. A delightfultrip may be had by taking the Island Wanderer, which plys on an intricateroute between Alexandria Bay, Thousand Island Park, Round Island Park, Gan-anoque, and Westminster Park, through tortuous channels, and amidst theislands of innumerable shapes, sizes and character; but to hire a boat andwander at ooes owji sweet wijl through the mazes of this marvelous archipelago, The St. Lawrence River. 37 results in the highest and most unalloyed enjoyment. There are more thaneighteen hundred of these islands, many of them but a few feet of granite rock,or with but a single tree laving its branches in the cool waters, and others of athousand acres in area. Some are bare, some verdant and grass-grown, othersthickly umbrageous with forest trees, and shelving beaches of sand or shingle,alternate with precipitous cliffs rising sheer from the channel. Many of theseislands are adorned by buildiags in every style, from the modest smnmer cot-. The Thousand Islands, near Alexandria Bay. tage to the magnificent villa and imposing caravansary; and nmnerous simimer-resort, fishing and canoe associations and clubs have then* headquarters is sufficiently abxuidant at no great distance, and the cold, green watersfairly swarm with the gamy muskallonge, the bass, the sahnon-trout, and othermembers of the finny tribe. Leaving Alexandiia Bay, which is but twelve miles below Clayton, on oneof the fine steamers of the Richeheu & Ontario Navigation Company, the tourist 58 Summer Tours. enjoys g, view of most of the Thousand Islands, which, commencing near Clay-ton, end with the Three Sisters, near Brockville and Morristown. Although theislands below Alexandria Bay are not so attractive as those above, the scenerygenerally is of a wild and interesting nature. Brockville (thirty-six miles), the terminus of a branch of the CanadianPacific, is a substantial tOA
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