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Among the Thousand Islands. 



been laid out, five of which are already graded. A dock has been 

 built more than a thousand feet long ; and hundreds of building lots 

 have been thrown into the market. Under the influence of this great 

 influx of visitors, the fishing is quite likely to suffer ; but the pure 

 water and the pure air that sweep down the mighty channel are 

 enough for the drinking and the breathing of a continent. 



Pleasant are the recollections of the place of which some aspects 

 are recorded here ; pleasant for all reasons ; pleasant as a center 

 of watering-place life ; pleasant for hours of fishing under the skill- 

 ful guidance of George Campbell ; and doubly pleasant, delightful, 

 for hours of silent, solitary communion with Nature in tranquil 

 bays and spicy cedar woods, — communion sometimes as uninter- 

 rupted as though we belonged to a different sphere from this earthly 

 one of hurry and bustle ; a place of legend and romance, of old asso- 

 ciations — an unfailing fountain of interest both in itself and its 

 inhabitants. 



BONNIE CASTLE. OWNED BY THE LATE DR. J. G. HOLLAND. 



