Forest leaves . River godof Ovid in Asia Minor: Venturas aspicit undas. * Soon it expands again towards the opposite shores of Lake On-tario, visiting there the flourishing cities of two dominions, till finallyit gathers itself to joyously enter the bed where it assumes it- propername of the River Saint Lawrence. As tired of it- wide spaces ofthe lakes, with naught but water and sky to greet the travelers now creates a park of waterways between broken up lands and rocksthat form eighteen hundred islands, huge and small, fertile and bar-ren, covered with nature- plays and vegetation as
Forest leaves . River godof Ovid in Asia Minor: Venturas aspicit undas. * Soon it expands again towards the opposite shores of Lake On-tario, visiting there the flourishing cities of two dominions, till finallyit gathers itself to joyously enter the bed where it assumes it- propername of the River Saint Lawrence. As tired of it- wide spaces ofthe lakes, with naught but water and sky to greet the travelers now creates a park of waterways between broken up lands and rocksthat form eighteen hundred islands, huge and small, fertile and bar-ren, covered with nature- plays and vegetation as well as with manshandicraft of palace- and cottage-, which present a sight that has nocounterpart in any country of the world. Entrancing at all hours, itoffers a true fairy scene in a summer evening, when the inhabited islesare illumined by numberless lanterns on the banks and in the trees,forming all kinds of emblems, especially the figure of the Cr — * L,ook> at the waters that are coming. FOREST LEAVES. ^Niagara Falls. FOREST LEAVES 7 The river now is growing by the influx of great black water in-land streams, which it soon assimilates and purifies by its preponder-ating mass of water. On its passage it soon greets the humble monu-ment erected in 1899 by the ladies of Ogdensburg to die memory ofFather Picquet, who in 1749 founded there his presentation colony ofIndian converts, which was so unfortunately shattered by the Englishin 1759. Impatient of its delays, it now begins to dance through manifoldrapids which to shoot, needs the skill and experience of Indian the St. Regis reservation it kindly receives on its waves the moderncanoes of the Catholic Indians, both Canadian and American, of thatfamous home of civilized redskins. After widening into the smallerLake of St. Francis, near the boiling and racing Lachine Rapids, itbends its head in veneration to the tomb of the saintly Mohawk maidenKateri Tegakwi, and a little below, it pays its homage to the roya
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