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Show TRAVELS THROUGH UPPER CANADA: Difbnces Breadth in Names of Places. in miles miles. afcending. - At its mouth - - .. - .L\t Cape Cat - 140 - AtSagnenayRiver -120- At the lower extremity of the !fie of Orleans - .. I 10 - At the bafon between the lfle of Orleans and Q2.e-be c - - .. 30 - From ~ebec to Lake St. Pierre - 90 Lake St. Pierre .. - JO - To La Valterie - IO - To Montreal - To Lake St. Louis - Lake St. Louis • .. I 2 - To Lake St. Francis - - 2 5 - Lake St. Francis - - 20 - To the Lake of a Thoufand Hies - - 90 - Lake of a Thoufand Iilcs 25 - To King!l:on, on Lake On-tario - - 743 .. - - - - - 1 5 This ifiand is 2 5 miles in length and 6 in breadth, the river on each fide is about 2 miles wide. S Thus far, 400 miles from its mouth, it is navigable for ihips of the line with 14· fafety. I 2 to 4 To this place, 56o miles, it . -i is navigable with perfeCt 4 fafety for ihips drawing t to 2 14 feet water. Ve!fds _ 5 of a much larger draught have proceeded many -1 to I miles above ~ebec, but 6 the channel is very intri• cate and dangerous. 2 f to 6 During the whole of its courfe the St. Lawrence is navigable for bateaux of two tons burthen, except merely at the rapids above Montreal, at the Fall of the Thicket, and at the Long Fall, where, as has been already pointed out, it is nece!fary to lighten the bateaux, if heavily laden. At each of thefe places, however, it is poffible to confl:ruct canals, fo as to § · . prevent COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE ATLANTIC. '179 prevent the trouble of unlading any part of the cargoes of the bateaux, and at a future day, when the country becomes rich, fuch canals 110 doubt will be made. Although the lakes are not immediately connected with the Atlantic Ocean by any other river than the St. Lawrence, yet there are fc veral fheams that fall into the Atlantic, fo nearly connected with others flowing into the lakes, that by their means trade may be carried on between the ocean and the lakes. The principal channels for trade between the ocean and t~e lakes are four in number; the firfl:, along the Miffiffippi and the Ohw, and thence up the Waba!h, Miami, lvru!hingun, or the Alleghany rivers, from the head of which there are portages of from one to eighteen miles to rivers that fall into Lake Erie; fecondly, along the Patowmac River, which flows pafi: Walhington, and from thence along Cheat River, the Monongahela and Alleghany rivers and French Creek to Prefqu' l11e on Lake Erie; thirdly, along Hudfon's River, which falls into the Atlantic at New York, and afterwards along the Mohawk River, Wood Creek, Lake Oneida, and Ofwego River, which lafl: falls into Lake Ontario; fourthly, along the St. Lawrence. The follow'ng is a flatement of the entire length of each of thefe channels or routes, and of the lengths of the portages in each, reckoning from the highefl: feaport on each river that will receive ve.lfels of a fuitable fize for croffi g the Atlantic to Lake Erie, which is the moll: central of the lakes to the four ports : From Montreal- - From Wa!hington - - - L ength of Woy itl Miles. 440 - 45° - - Length of the Portages.' 22 So When the navigation is opened, this will be reduced, it is [aid, to 50 From New York - .. - soo - 30 miles. From New Orleans - - I,8oo - I to 18 According to the route followed from the Oh.io to the Lake, From |