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Identifier: picturesqueridea00ride (find matches)
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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washing round our boat! Like a garment that has grown old, world wearinessdrops from us under natures touch. Ah, what son of Esculapius can rival hermagic powers of healing! What anodyne has pharmacy like that we drink inwith her pine-scented air! Another lake breaks upon us, a sapphire sea, studded with emerald isles;from out the tangled mass of leaf, blossom and vine there flashes the red-wingedblack-bird, like a streak of flame; the lonely crane pursues his slow, heavyflight, and from over head comes the weird, eerie cry of the loon. Through manyisle-gemmed lakes we take our way, each having some distinctive beauty or 32 The Picturesque Rideau Route.
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GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, OTTAWA feature of interest. Cranberry Lake possesses the unusual phenomena of FLOATING ISLANDS, which, however, are fully as green and fair as their sisters whorest on a solid foundation. Although there are several places where tourists can find accommodation,Jones Falls is the Mecca of fishermen, but as we shall return to it, we lingeronly to inspect its stupendous horseshoe dam, 400 feet long and over 300 feetthick at the base and ninety feet high. The four locks, too, cut through solidrock, each lifting the boat twenty-two feet, call for more than passing notice. We now run through some of the finest fishing grounds in existence. Indeed,from this point, noted for its bass and pickerel, to the Rideau River, wheremaskalonge of from twenty to 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 sca

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