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and canals, circumnavigate the rapids of this 
most scenic of rivers and reach the ever-charm- 
ing Lake of the Thousand Isles at the foot of 
Lake Ontario. 
If ambitious of further exploration he can sail 
to Toronto and have the boat hauled by rail to 
Penetang on Georgian Bay, to avoid the long 
voyage thither via Detroit and the St. Clair 
River. In a few years the Trent Valley Canal 
will be opened from Lake Ontario, via Peterboro 
and the Kawartha Lakes and River Severn, to 
Georgian Bay, which will affort a short route 
along the most picturesque waterway in the 
world, thus saving a distance of five hundred 
miles. — 
Once afloat amid the 30,000 islands of Lake 
Huron, the enraptured vogager will wish for 
eternal summer, so amazingly beautiful is the 
island scenery. Here, bathed in an ocean of 
dry, clear air, full of ozone and sailing over a 
sunlit sea of immaculate transparency, he can 
cruise amid endless islands covered with maple, 
pine, juniper, sumac, golden-rod, blue daisies 
and blueberries. 
The Great Lakes furnish a limitless field for 
summer exploration, and for those who desire 
to escape the Northern winter there is the trip to 
New Orleans via the canal system of Ohio from 
Lake Ontario to Cincinnati. At Cincinnati the 
Ohio is entered, and one may drift down the 
river until the Mississippi is reached. Along the 
lower reaches of the latter river the gun and the 

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rod will supply the table with a variety of food, 
not to mention the wild fruits to be obtained 
from the banks. 
In the bayous of the Gulf of Mexico oysters 
and shrimp are plentiful, and bears, wild tur- 
keys, deer,’ possum and ducksabound. Hugging 
the western shore of Florida, an archipelago of 
islands is entered south of Tampa. Then comes 
Key West and its outlying islands, affording a 
safe route around the extreme end of the penin- 
sula. Beginning with the Indian River, there is 
an inland route safe for boats of the lightest 
draught right up to New York. The route runs 
from Jacksonville to Charleston inside the sea 
island of Georgia. From Charlestown to Beau- 
fort, N. C., there is a short stretch of outside 
cruising, but this negotiated, it is all inside sail- 
ing, through Core Sound, Pamlico Sound, 
Albemarle Sound and thence by canal across 
Virginia to Norfolk. The noble Chesapeake 
Bay affords fine sailing to Chesapeake City. 
Here you enter a canal that crosses the States of 
Maryland and Delaware and arrive at Delaware 
City on the Delaware River. Up the Delaware 
to Bordentown is the next stage, where the boat 
enters the Delaware and Raritan Canal for New 
Brunswick and thence to New York. 
There are altogether some twenty thousand 
miles of navigable waterways within the United 
States. The possibilities for extended river 
recreation surpass those of any other country on 
the globe. 

the other extreme is the fast-running motor boat 
This is the “‘ Laugh a Lot,” which was described on page 561 in the June number of this magazine—It has a 
guaranteed speed of 20 miles an hour 
