Meanderings among a thousand islands; . tendent of educational statistics inthe Census Bureau at Washington, and who generally makes anannual visit of a few weeks with family and friends. On the main shore in the immediate neighborhood one or twosmall cottages have been recently built, whose ownership we havebeen unable to ascertain. COLLINS LANDING, only a few hundred yards above, was formerly one of the woodingstations for the old American line of steamers on Lake Ontario,and also the site of a steam saw mill, whose only relic, a rustycylinder boiler, lies on the shore ornamented with one of
Meanderings among a thousand islands; . tendent of educational statistics inthe Census Bureau at Washington, and who generally makes anannual visit of a few weeks with family and friends. On the main shore in the immediate neighborhood one or twosmall cottages have been recently built, whose ownership we havebeen unable to ascertain. COLLINS LANDING, only a few hundred yards above, was formerly one of the woodingstations for the old American line of steamers on Lake Ontario,and also the site of a steam saw mill, whose only relic, a rustycylinder boiler, lies on the shore ornamented with one of Safe signs. Shortly above Collins Landing the narroAv channel begins towiden, and a number of farm houses, with a factory for Limbera:er THE ISLAND AVA^STDERER. 21 cheese on the Wells Island side, somewhat vary the the shore of Wells continues rocky, the farms on the mainare now more extended and the land generally susceptible of culti-vation. About half a mile above the cheese factory on WellsIsland, is the. PEEL DOCK so called from the destruction of the steamer Sir Robert Peel, awell remembered incident of the border troubles of 1837-8, to whichallusion has already been made. Not to enter at length into thehistory of those troubles, it may be sufficient to say that an abor-tive attempt to revolutionize the Canadas, generally known as thePatriot war, found many sympathizers and awakened great inter-est all along the border. The burning of the American steamerCaroline near Niagara by a band of men from Canada, while itaroused a general indignation throughout the States, especiallyintensified the excitement here, and produced a feeling difficult torepress. Men were enlisted, and organizations effected, under thename of Hunter Lodges, who threatened and in fact attemptedan invasion of Canada in the interest of those who desired revolu-tion. The particulars of the burning of the Peel are thus relatedby Mr. Hough in his history of Jefferson county : On
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