Entrance To Thousand Islands
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Entrance To Thousand Islands
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Print Collector
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Drawing - Illustration
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Entrance to Thousand Islands', 1874. An . Artist sketching at Thousand Islands, an archipelago of 1,864 islands in the Saint Lawrence River, on the Canada-US border. '...the Thousand Islands number one thousand six hundred and ninety-two, as may be ascertained in the Treaty of Ghent!...our steamer...threads her way through the thirty-nine miles which they thickly intersperse. In size they differ much, however, some being only a few yards in extent, and others several miles. The verdure on most of them is limited to a sturdy growth of fir and pine, with occasionally some scrubby undergrowth, which sprouts with northern vigor from crevices in the rocky bed'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American . Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]. Artist John J. Harley. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
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January 28th, 2021
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