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Title: Routes and rates for summer tours
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (New York, Press of the American bank note co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. 95 SHOOTING THE RAPIDS. ON leaving Alexandria Bay by the palace day steamers of the Richelieu & Ontario NavigationGos Royal Mail Line, the tourist enjoys a view of all the Thousand Islands, which, com-mencing at Cape Vincent, end at Brockville, or Morristown. The picturesqueness of thistrip is almost indescribable. Although the islands are not as attractive as those between Clayton and Alexandria Bay, the scenery, generallyspeaking, is of a wild and interesting nature.The last of the Thousand Islands are called theThree Sisters from their resemblance to eachother. They are situated equi-distant fromeach other and in nearly a direct line betweenBrockville—-the terminus of the eastern divis-ion of the Canadian Pacific Railwa)-—andMorristown, on the Rome, Watertown & Og-densburg Railroad ; and it has often been re-marked, it seems as if Nature had placed themthere as natural abutments of a bridge to con-nect these railway lines, which

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