. 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 . GREAT SOUTH FALLS, MUSKOKA RIVER. Lake Muskoka is one of the largest of the lakes comprisedunder the generic term of the Lakes of Muskoka, being twenty-two miles long and nine miles wide, while it is studded with some350 isl
. 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 . GREAT SOUTH FALLS, MUSKOKA RIVER. Lake Muskoka is one of the largest of the lakes comprisedunder the generic term of the Lakes of Muskoka, being twenty-two miles long and nine miles wide, while it is studded with some350 islands, and affords splendid fishing. Bracebridge, the chief town of the Muskoka district, and astation of the Northern & Northwestern division of the GrandTrunk, is agreeably situated on the cliffs of the river Muskoka, and 66 SUMMER RESORTS. the neighborhood merits a sojourn from the tourist to visit itsinteresting surroundings. Near by are the High Falls, and theGreat South Falls, the most commanding natural feature in Mus-koka. Beaumaris, the southermost of these summer resorts, andwhich boasts of a large and excellent hotel, is situated on TondernIsland. Here is capital bathing and a sandy beach. Immediatelyopposite, and on the route which the steamer takes when crossingto the western side of the lake is a cluster of small islands, known. SOUTH FALLS, MUSKOKA RIVER. as the Kettles, where the very best bass fishing and splendidtrolling for salmon trout may be found. Port Carling is the most central of all the villages on the lakes,being the converging point for all the steamers running to and froon the three lakes, thus access to all parts can most convenientlybe obtained from this center. At this point locks connect LakesMuskoka and Rosseau. SHADOW RIVER 67 Lake Rosseau is fourteen miles long in its extremest points, andis one of the most interesting and charming of lakes in this scenery is much varied, and at one point there is a most re-markable echo. The southe
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