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Title: Rod and gun
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Outdoor life
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Que. (etc.) Rod and Gun Pub. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he young ladies revelledin the unwonted purity of the climate, thebrilliant sunshine, the deep quiet bays and AX ISLAND ADVENTURE IN GEORGIAN BAY 24 n the radio-active energy of a marvellousenvironment. Continuing their journey down theWaubeno Channel, they turned the southend of Parry Island and entered a seriesof narrow, natural canals, perfumed andglorified by the omnipresent pine. Keep-ing close to the eastern shore of theisland, they visited the lower Indian vil-lage, where the patriarch, Papamwawe-dong. holds court. Then they sailednorthward through the sinuous channels yet seen, they waited further explorationof the archipelago. The next day they embarked on asteamer at the wharf .of the Belvidere forPoint-au-Baril to investigate the accumu-lated riches of the scenery thither. Ah, said Cecilia, as the vessel sailedthrough the wonderful labyrinth of reefsand islands lying north of FranklinIsland, these islands are the diadem onthe brow of Ontario, and each is a verit-able jewel.
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Indian Camp at Kensington Point, North Shore, Georgian Bay. choked with water-illies, along canalspenetrating the fissures of tremendousrocks, through water gardens that seemedto have been created by the incantationsof a magician, until at last they arrivedat Parry Sound again. On their journeythey saw lying west of Parry Island morethan one island suitable for the use oftheir club, but fearing that perhaps fur-ther north there might be a still morebeautiful oasis of the ocean than thev had How infinitely beautiful, said Jose-phine, and see, beyond and between the-islands, what glad glimpses of the glit-tering blue ocean ! This is a divine adventure, saidEdith. We are the discoverers of a new.capricious, fantastic Avorld. Here areplanets, spheres, constellations, a perfectMilky Way, in fact, of islands. \Miatdelight to explore at leisure this wonder-ful inheritance of the whole American 246 ROD AND GUX IX CANADA continent, this untenanted i)rincipality oflight, peace and beauty. We sh

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