. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. AinoH}^ the Tl 1011 saint Islaiiits. 575 ciria Hay—fortunately still iKaiitiliil—dots Nature ri;ij,'n in silint majesty, lor th*.- constant tlultcr and l)usil(r of llu; life and }(ayrty of a sumniir resort have superseded her. Hut althou},di Alexandria Hay is in this continual tumult of life, for some fortimat(; and almost imaccountal)l(! , the 'I'housand Islands are not in the least tinctured with the blase air of an ordinar) walerinjf-p
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. AinoH}^ the Tl 1011 saint Islaiiits. 575 ciria Hay—fortunately still iKaiitiliil—dots Nature ri;ij,'n in silint majesty, lor th*.- constant tlultcr and l)usil(r of llu; life and }(ayrty of a sumniir resort have superseded her. Hut althou},di Alexandria Hay is in this continual tumult of life, for some fortimat(; and almost imaccountal)l(! , the 'I'housand Islands are not in the least tinctured with the blase air of an ordinar) walerinjf-place, nor an; they likely to become so. There are humlreds—thousands of places, ruj^j^ed and solitary, amonj,^ which a hoat can j^liile, while its occu pant lies jrloriously indolent, doini; nothin;^, hut reveling in the realization of life'; litth; hays, almost land-locked, where th<; resin ous odors of hemlock and pine fill the nostrils, anti the whispers of nature's unseen life serv(.'s hut lo maker the solitude mori- perceptihie. Sometimes the vociferous cawinj^ of crows soun<ls through the hol-. low woods, or a solitary (•ai,dc lifts from his |)erch on llu; top ol a stark and dead pine and sails majestically across the hlue arch of the sky. .Such scents occur in a beautiful sheet of water called the Lake of the Isle, I) inj; placidly ami balmily in tlu; lap of tlur |)iney hills of Wells Island, rellectinj; tlK;ir rui;j.;(:d crests in its glassy sur- face, dotted here antl there by tiny islands. In the stillest bays arc; s])ots that seem to lie in a Rip V'an Win- kle sleep, where one would .scarcc;ly be surjiriseil to see an Indian ' 1 i is ',.1 n J' i' If I •it I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897. New York : Century
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