Book excerpt: Excerpt from Glimpses of St. Lawrence Summer Life: Among the Islands, Down the Rapids, and in Canadian Cities I have heard fellow-travelers plan to spend one and the same day at Niagara Falls and Alexandria Bay. I have been asked if the St. Lawrence was in Maine, and if Mt. Desert was not the largest of the Thousand Island group; while a very large number of people are firmly of the belief that all of the islands are below Montreal. One - only one - very fresh traveler once inquired of me if foot-bridges connected all of the islands. From the foregoing it will be seen that the most important and foremost feature herein contained is the settlement of exact location. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.