As your canoe or kayak glides along the six-mile stretch, take in the low bridges, the tulip trees, white pine, red cedar and the graceful old estates on the water.

THE corridor formed by Route 110 along the six-mile stretch extending from the Northern State Parkway to the Southern State has become Long Island's most active office and retail market.

The county was building the sidewalk along the six-mile stretch of the five-lane William Floyd Parkway after tallying 77 bike and pedestrian accidents, including two deaths, there between 1988 and 1997.

This six-mile stretch of beach, which includes Varca and Cavelossim beaches and ends at the wide and muddy Sal River, is much less frequented, cleaner and quite tranquil.

There will be up to 10 daily round-trip sailings of the new 51-foot ferry Tranquility, across the six-mile stretch of the Atlantic to the Aran Islands.

Within Islip's six-mile stretch, the town has jurisdiction over the unincorporated areas, which include the hamlets of Kismet, Fair Harbor, Atlantique and Seaview.

"People walked the six-mile stretch from Wanamingo to Zumbrota on each side looking for him," Mrs. Sather said.

A power company biologist who walked the six-mile stretch of ranch that the power line would cross recorded scores of rare, threatened or endangered species: bald eagle, wood stork, gopher turtle, sand-hill crane and alligator among them.

Most of the other antiques shops fall along the six-mile stretch in between.

About 40 cubic yards of oil had been collected by late Thursday and put into hundreds of black plastic bags that lined the five- to six-mile stretch of beach along the four communities most heavily affected, Ms. Makatura said.