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CHAPTER VI. 
TROLLING AMONG THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. 
Here is the angler’s paradise, 
A dreaming, Eden-like retreat, 
With balmy perfume in the air, 
And wild-flowers springing at the feet. 
Att the charms which angling for pickerel confer are sub- 
limated and condensed into trolling among the Thousand Isl- 
ands. The pickerel of the thousand lucent streams and rap- 
ids, shaded by as many floral is 
lands, are much better flavor- 
ed than are those which dream out an indolent existence while 
watching for frogs among the lily-pads, or darting, until they 
wear themselves thin, after the minnows of ponds and rivers. 
The Thousand Islands extend from Cape Vincent to a few 
miles below Alexandria Bay, or about thirty miles, and the 
average width of river is about five miles. Imagination may 
better picture than I can describe the hundred and fifty miles 
of trolling and casting the fly on streams dividing picturesque 
islands, or islets covered with greensward and enlivened by 
