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Title: The picturesque Rideau route ... through the most charming scenery in America
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Rideau Lakes Navigation Co
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Publisher: Ottawa, Federal Press Co.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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o forty pounds weight abound, the whole route isthe paradise of anglers. Black bass were caught this season near the fallsweighing five and a half pounds, and.pickerel seven pounds, whilst Oswego, oryellow bass, tipped the scales at eight and a half, and pike at eighteen pounds. Lake Opinicon, once the home of the wild potato, not infrequently yieldsgreen bass up to seven pounds. The spotted, strawberry, calico bass, or croppy,as it is variously called, a most toothsome morsel, perch and other minor mem-bers of the finny tribe are also found in great abundance. Passing throughIndian, Clear and Newboro Lakes, and the lock at the Village of Newboro, wefinally reach the summit, or highest point on Little Rideau Lake, which differsfrom the other lakes in being one unbroken sheet of water. Here we are 161 feetabove Lake Ontario, which elevation we have obtained by thirteen locks inthirty-eight miles, and must now descend 295 feet by thirty-four locks in eighty- The Picturesque Rideau Route
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The Picturesque Rideau Route. seven miles to the Capital. We now pass into the Big Rideau, the queen of thechain, it being twenty-one miles long and from one to eight miles in width, andhaving over 200 islands. Until now we have never estimated lakes highly. Ariver that came from somewhere, and was going somewhere, hustling along asif it had a train to catch, or a bill to meet, or had just been appointed chairmanat a primary, was distinctly entitled to respect. It could tell stories, too, of themountain heights from whence it had come, or happy country homes past whichit had flowed. It whispered of the forget-me-nots and wild violets, and of thebuttercups that decked the lush meadows through which it had meandered. Therewas an air of hope and expectancy all about it, touching the great ocean towhich it was flowing, like poor humanity going out to its eternal sea. But alake that loafs around home, with its hands in its pockets, so to speak, lackscharacter, and so we had never cultivate

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