The place was well worth looking at.

This extent of water, of a circumference of nearly seven miles and an area of two hundred and fifty acres, reposed in a border of diversified trees.

Towards the east, through a curtain of verdure, picturesquely raised in some places, sparkled an horizon of sea.

The lake was curved at the north, which contrasted with the sharp outline of its lower part.

Numerous aquatic birds frequented the shores of this little Ontario, in which the thousand isles of its American namesake were represented by a rock which emerged from its surface, some hundred feet from the southern shore.