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Among the Thousand Islands. 



to woody islet, and each little lily-padded bay, nestling in among 

 the hills and bluffs of the islands, teemed with water-fowl undisturbed 

 by the report of a gun, it was worthy, to the semi- poetical mind of 

 the Indian, to be an abode of Him who created all nature, and who 

 had made this lovely region as an especial dwelling-place for him- 

 self. Even so late as fifty years ago, before the great tumult- 

 creating steam-boats had disturbed these solitudes, the islands were 

 the favorite retreat of deer ; catamounts wailed in the tangled depths 

 of the night-woods, and each cool nook and corner teemed with wild 

 life. 



Now, however, the inexorably rotating kaleidoscope of time has 

 shaken away the savage scenes of old, never to be repeated, and 

 new ones appear to the eye of the present. No longer in Alexan- 



