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Show LOVELY St. LAWRENCE. A Salt Lake Lady Enchanted Among the Thousand Islands. A Delightful Excursion Delightfully Delight-fully Described. (From a Lady Correspondent.) Watkrtown, N. Y. June SOtD, 1878. Bring one of the maoy persona who are visiting tbese beautiful ielnnde ind while enjoying it eo thoroughly i aiyeelf, I often think of oiy friends at ome, who, I know, would enjoy it; hence I thought, perhaps, a little description of this famous place would not prove uninteresting to your readers. read-ers. Imagine then, a faultless summer sum-mer morn id with sunlight which might have been shade too warm had it not betn tempered by coo bretaea; an almodt cloud lee Bky, and wnter broken only hy the movement of the current, and you will know how fortunate we were in our selection of a day to visit the ThousanJ Ielauds ol the river t. Lawreoce. A short run on the crt aud we were at C)pt' Vincent, where we louod the steamer Maud which had been chartered lor the occasion by the Wateriown Hil school wailing to take us on board We had scarcely left the wharf when we found our-telvea among the inlands I'be trip down was through the British channel, and aa we moved owif;I through the caltn, clear water of the river, with the tjliilnerw only broken the enchanting slrenaia ui one ol atraus' waltzes, we could cloae our pyca and well imagine we had entered fairyland. Sometimes the boat would run so near ihe Bhore that we could aee the mtss and ferns growing tictween the rocks, and at omtra m far out in the channel lhat the snor on either bide sec-tried a mass of at-!; .r..rm nrj ccitl. - Iv.L- rrrn-,.,rl nt ajreen. It i eaid there are eigiiiei-n imndrcd islands in this group. Inn how they could be cnunicd is a m'- jbct J for wonder. They present a,i ennk:.-.- , variety of form and (o'orn.a;. 8om nir. merely a :itt;o ciumpot rucltan' !t-w feet in area, while oititre ontuMi ' teres, and are more or ld cultivated; -ume dt eceud to lue water in gentle, urftss? fci'.iped, while olnera are e'llnl niassfs of rock, hijrh nd Hbrunt, nfloriJing iittle if any means of iiccee- from the river. But whether rouj;h or emooth, verdant cr barren, th y all unity iu a whole which id impossible im-possible to equal, and alrurwt imposi bio to describe. Tno river is con -taotly clianiug; at lime- we entt r a channel winch seems uurruunded iiy thickly-w.Hided hi'iu ar.tt hinlli with no outlet but tb.il thnnih which the boat has jtisi entt-red; hut ha we urn ceedc-d il dissolved into u long channel and widened into au open budy. We cnade a atop ol an hour or more nt Westminster Park, where there is a new hotel, and an opportunity lor almost unlimited improvement There is a luwly vit w from tlie balcony ol the tmti I, however, show ing the TdoukhuJ lrlund bouse 'in liif distance, md in iniie this vill il ntrr.-lesa ntrr.-lesa be a plme of great beauty and interest. Tue IocjIiuu in uf Itie fim-st with variety enough iu the way v rocks and trees lu render it exceedingly exceed-ingly attractive when arl shall huve performed her miaaion From Westminster we weut to Alexandria buy. At mis place we nad a brighter view of the Thousand Island tjouse, which is even handsomer oi: near inspection than we had supposed It is just our ideal of what such a hotel -nould be. We also saw the Croa-ruan Croa-ruan house, aurLber large hotel ; Dr J. G. Hi.'lrtntl 's pretty cotlnjir', 'Boainie Csslie;" E. A ntr-i;j ' uitage ul "Anlfiiy's Point Gor i M. Pullman's cotii;n vo Puil:i:-i iblaDd, and many otutrs which it is impossible to mention. Some of the cottages are very elegaut, while oth ;rr are small ai.d unpretentions, t.ut tl.i-pictureeque tl.i-pictureeque mode of visiiinj; ib-islands ib-islands is the fa verity etle i.f camp mg out. .Nothing can be jollier thti'.i the "teuts on the beach," which the citizens of Waicrtown aiid othet localities pitch as hou-en for their sojourns among the Inlands, One ol the most curious cf the American islands stands a short distance ahow Alexandria bay, a solid imes of rock which bears the uupoetical name ol "TheDovilu G?en. "Growing trom thi rock are a few scraggy cedare. and on one side we couiU see an opening, which some might think looked like an oven, but we f.Vik-d to find iiV resemblance. A hurried view of tho TuniiuliJ I-Und park, the rent cunp ineeic' around, a i-hui'. slop at C'aytnn, and l the most anniMii.c inc. dents thi day occurred as we were leaving place. Wo b'id h-eu stKUting .-id saving hiuidk'jndjiffs -it tiie eiu-wl in the wharf, and were j'!n; nelt lin'j down toquietenjoyment again, when Miir atteutiun was attracted by two little children who were staudiug un the ruiuB ot an old pier, waving their iittle, torn bonnets aud shouting at the top of their voices. Their greeting greet-ing was hailed with applause, and about after shout went ringing back lo them. College Bongs, quaint rounde aod popular bymus beguiled lite homeward voyage back to Cape Vin ceut. I wish I could picture for you the grand panorama uf water and rocks and trees which the St. Liw-rence Liw-rence presents, but such beauty must be seen to be appreciated. The set ting sun threw a broad band of gold across the water long belore we reached port, and the tiny waves were bathed in amethyst light, wnieh d slowly away, Hud all too soon du-k sutled around us. The whistle auuud ed and the tired pleasure at-eker crowded ofl the boat and into the1 cars. The run up to Watertowu wan noon made, and so ended our trip to i the Thoudtind ltd n! The pleasure; ol the tripout-livtd the weariueso, and we Bball count June 28th as one of the noted days of our lives. J. C. R. |
