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width of a mile and three quarters. It is 2| miles from the 

 north main, and 1 mile from the south, opposite Gananoque. 

 It contains 5,316 acres (as stated by Messrs. T. and B.) and 

 belongs to the United States. 



"Wells" Island, consisting of 7950 acres, is li- mile be- 

 low Grindstone Island, and is better described as two oblong 

 and parallel islands joined near their top by an isthmus. The 

 larger portion (running N. E.) is 8 miles long and 3 in 

 greatest breadth ; while the smaller is 4| miles long and fds 

 of a mile in average breadth. The channel between this island 

 and the south main is always very narrow, and in one place 

 only two hundred yards across. It belongs to the United Slates, 

 being always more than a mile from the north main. 



Club Island (British) is 3^ miles long and one mile in 

 greatest breadth, tapering at each end ; in its upper third it 

 lies close to the smaller division of Wells Island, the interval 

 being often only thirty to forty yards, and containing also many 

 islets. It is five hundred yards from the Canadian shore at its 

 lower end. 



Wells and Club Islands are in the heart of the Lal<e of the 

 Thousand Isles, and are accordingly surrounded with multi- 

 tudes of islands, large and small, very many being mere patches 

 of rock. They universally run N.E. or nearly so, and are com- 

 monly narrow, with their sides steep or precipitous, and their 

 extremities dipping gently into deep and clear waters. They 

 are from twenty to a hundred feet high, and are for the most part 

 well wooded with cedar, hemlock, pine, &c., but frequently 

 again are bare bleached rocks, smooth, glazed, or in large 

 square fragments. 



The next island of considerable size is some distance below 

 " Wells." It is called " Tar Island," and is nearly two miles 

 long by a mean breadth of ^ of a mile. It is separated from 

 the north main by a rushy shallow sixty yards broad. A few 

 hundred yards S.E. of the head of Tar Island is Yeo's or Bald 

 Rock Island, Avhereon is a great deposit of schorl. 



Grenadier Island is 44 miles long, its upper third ranging 

 parallel to Tar Island, and in one place only four hundred 

 yards distant. Opposite Smidi's tavern on Tar Island it is § ot 

 a mile from the north main, and is never less than a mile and 

 a half from the south main. The breadth of Grenadier island 

 is vei-y irregular, but may be taken at six hundred yards as a 

 mean. About two miles from its head it is nearly severed by 

 two inlets iiom the opposite sides; the intervening istlimus 

 being only eighty to a hundred yards broad. This island is 

 clongateil in a north-cast direction, and contains 1070 acres; 

 most of it under cultivation. It has been awarded to the British. 



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