ISLANDS. 
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on every side* that appears to have no com¬ 
munication with the lake, except by the passage 
through which you entered; you are looking 
about, perhaps, for an outlet to enable you ta 
proceed, thinking at last to see some little 
channel which will just admit your bateaii> 
when on a sudden an expanded sheet of water 
9 ofjefls upon you, whose boundary is the ho¬ 
rizon alone; again in a few minutes you find 
yourself land-locked, and again a spacious 
passage as suddenly presents itself; at other 
times, when in the middle of one of these 
basons, between a cluster of islands, a dozen 
different channels, like so many noble rivers, 
meet the eye, perhaps equally unexpectedly, 
and on each side the islands appear regularly 
retiring till they sink from the sight in the 
distance. Every minute, during the passage 
of this lake, the prospect varies. The mime- 
liierous Indian hunting encampments on the 
different islands, with the smoke of their firdi' 
rising up between the trees, added considerably 
to the beauty of the scenery as we passed it? 
The Lake of a Thousand Islands is twenty*- 
c* 
five miles in length, and about six in breadth.' 
From its upper end to Kingston, at which 
place we arrived early in the evening, the 
distance is fifteen miles. 
The length of time required to ascend the* 
fliver St. Lawrence, from Montreal to King-" 
