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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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The Picturesque Rideau Route. it with other beauty spots on the Continent state positively that, while theymay have witnessed its equal, certainly they never saw its superior, all pointsof excellence taken into consideration. It is not only beautiful, but interestingand historic. The dam at the Falls is a stupendous piece of work, and at thetime it was built was the largest structure of its kind in the world. Read thesize of it: 400 feet long, 301 feet thick at the base and ninety feet high. It ishorseshoe in shape, and the mason work is most enduring. The locks, four innumber, were cut through the solid rock, and each one lifts the boat twenty-twofeet. At the top is simply fairy-land. There are many nooks, bays and inlets and
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Channel Near Smiths Falls, Poonamalie Cut pretty places which are taken advantage of by camping parties. No better fish-ing exists anywhere than in this locality. There are many small lakes lying indifferent directions from the Falls, in which black and green bass and pike areabundant. An empty string on the return journey is an unknown thing here. Leaving Jones Falls The Quarters are entered. Here is where the head-quarters of the construction staff were established. It is said that on pay-daywheel-barrows h >d to be used in taking the silver money to the different pay-masters. The scenery is very fine, and in several places passengers on thesteamer can easily pluck leaves off the trees lining the banks, the stream is sonarrow. The channel is serpentine, and strangers are unable to tell what direc-tion the boat is likely to take. The sail in The Quarters is most enchanting. IO TJw Picturesque Rideau Route.

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