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bagging, to the two guns, two swans, three snipe, five wild 

 geese, and five hundred and seventy ducks (black, mallard, 

 and gray), — weight, i,86olbs." 



Again, the Essex Record, of the same date, says that 

 " Rob Renardson has just returned with two others from a 

 shooting expedition at Baptiste Creek. They have bagged 

 sixteen hundred ducks, two bugle swans (one weighing 35 

 and the other 40 lbs.), besides a variety of smaller game." 



After such statements as the above, further comment is 

 unnecessary. Such sport may be called — sport in earnest. 



FROM SARNIA TO TORONTO. 



The principal of the islands at the mouth of the St. Clair 

 River are Walpole and St. Anne's ; all to the west of the 

 former belong to the United States. The channel separat- 

 ing them from the mainland is called " Ecarte," and that 

 running betwixt them, "Johnson's Channel." Walpole 

 Island, about ten miles long, and from three to four wide, is 

 occupied by parties of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomie 

 Indians, the settlement having been formed by a Colonel 

 McKoe, to whom the Indians gave the name of " White 

 Elk." At the south-western extremity of the lake is Peach 

 Island, or He la Peche, the home of the celebrated Indian 

 chief Pontiac, now used as a fishing station. Lake St. Clair 

 receives several rivers, the principal of which are the Thames 

 and the Great Bear River. The former winds for more than 

 100 miles through the richest and most fertile part of Canada, 

 on whose banks are situated London, Chatham, and several 

 other thriving places. From Lake St. Clair issues the 

 Detroit River, a spacious stream celebrated for its beauty 



