Lake of the Thousand Islands, an expansion of the St Lawrence (q.v.) extending about 40 miles below Lake Ontario. It contains some 1500 rocky islets, the largest, Wolfe Island (48 sq. m.; pop. 2383), measuring 21 miles by 7.
Lake of the Thousand Islands
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 488
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