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REMARKS.
The Hon. William Morris was President of the
Executive Council from May 22nd, 1847, to March
roth, 1848.
Hon. H. Sherwood, Attorney-General for Upper
Canada, from May 29th, 1847, to March rio, 1848,
Hon, William B. Richards, Attorney-General for
Upper Canada, from October 28th, 1851, to June
21st, 1853.
Hon. H. Sherwood, Solicitor-General for Upper
Canada, from October 7th, 1844, to June 30th, 1846.
Hon. Albert Norton Richards, Solicitor-General,
from December 26th, 1863, to January 30th, 1864.
Hon. W. Morris, Receiver-General, from Septem¬
ber 2nd, 1844, to May 2oth, 1847.
August 7th, 1858, to March 26th, 1862.
Hon. James Morris, Postmaster-General, from
February 22nd, 1851, to August roth, 1853.
Hon. George Sherwood, Commissioner of Crown
Lands, from March 27th, 1862, to May 23rd 1862.
Hon. W. Morris, Member of New Board of Public
Works, from October 4th, 1844, to June 8th, 1846.
Hon. W. Morris, Member of the Executive Council,
from September 22nd, 1844, to March roth, 1848.
Hon. James Morris, Member of the Executive
Council, from February 22nd, 1851, to September |
roth, 1854; from August 2nd, 1858, to August 4th,
1858; and from May 24th, 1862, to March 6th, 1863.
Hon. William B. Richards, Member of Executive |
Council, from October 28th, 1851, to June aist, 1853.
Hon. A. N. Richards. Member of the Executive
Council, from December 26th, 1863, to January 3oth,
1864.
Hon. H. Sherwood, Member of the Executive
Council, from August 6th, 1858, to May 23rd, 1862;
and from May 2gth, 1847, to March roth, 1848.
Hon. George Sherwood, Member of the Executive
Council, from August 6th, 1858, to May 23rd, 1862.
The Bathurst Division for the Legislative Council
consisted of the South Riding of Leeds, and the |
North and South Ridings of Lanark.
_ TheSt. Lawrence Division consisted of Brockville,
Elizabethtown, South Riding of Grenville, North
Riding of Leeds and Grenville, and the County of
Dundas.
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Tue ST. LAWRENCE AND THE THOUSAND ISLANDS.
The Thousand Isles! The Thousand Isles!
———— Dimpled the wave around them smiles,
Kissed by a thousand red-lipped flowers ;
_ Gemmed by a thousand emerald bowers ;
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A thousand birds their praises wake,
By rocky glade and plumy brake ;
A thousand cedars’ fragrant shade
Falls where the Indian’s children played ;
And fancy’s dream my heart beguiles,
While singing thee, the Thousand Isles.
No vestal virgin guards thy groves ;
No Cupid breathes of Cyprian loves ;
No satyr’s form at eve is seen ;
No dryad peeps the trees between ;
No Venus rises from their shore,
No loved Adonis, red with gore ;
No pale Endymion, wooed to sleep,
No brave Leander breasts their deep ;
No Ganymede, no Pleiades :
Theirs are a new world’s memories.
The flag of France first o’er them hung ;
The mass was said, the vespers sung—
The friars of Jesus hailed the strands
As blessed Virgin Mary’s lands ;
And red men mutely heard, surprised,
Their heathen names all Christianized.
The Thousand Isles! the Thousand [sles !
Their charm from every care beguiles ;
Titian alone hath grace to paint
The triumph of their patron saint,
Whose waves return on memory s tide ;
La Salle and Piquet, side by side,
Proud Frontenac and bold Champlain,
There act their wanderings o er again ;
And, while their golden sunlight smiles,
Pilgrims shall greet thee, Thousand Isles.
Inseparably linked with the past are many legends
connected with the Indian occupation of the St.
Lawrence. The first French navigators of the
beautiful river, learned from their dusky companions
that the Lake of the Thousand Isles was the favorite
haunt of the Great Spirit, who had there spread out
in miniature ahappy hunting ground. The maze of
Islands was known as Manatonna, or the Garden of
the Great Spirit. From a few miles above Ganan¬
Islands, some comprising beautiful farms, some the
picture of disolation ; bold bluffs of rocky heights,
tiny islets peeping above the liquid blue, long vistas
stretching for miles away, an enchanting picture of
sky and island, light and shade, pine and hemlock
and cedar, wreathed in fantastic clusters upon the
rocky shores, | -"
Upon the bluff within the limits of Brockville, are
two paintings of undoubted Indian origin. They
represent two canoes, one containing six warriors
and the other five ; in close proximity, there is also
the figure of an Indian, representing the Savage as
diving into the river. The paintings are of OIDs
paratively modern origin and are supposed to have >
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