206 WESTERN LAKES WHICH FORM THE RIVER ST LAWRENCE. 



of Lake Michigan, is situated the village of Green Bay and 

 Chicago, to which steam-vessels ply occasionally from De 

 troit. 



Lake Huron is 218 miles long, by 180 broad, and has 

 several large branches running into Michigan and Canada. 

 Michilimackinac, or Mackinaw, is an island on which there 

 is a village of the same name, at the entrance of the lake, and 

 Goderich is on the east shore. 



The waters of the three-mentioned lakes flow through the 



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river St Clair, and form a lake of the same name, which is 

 about ninety miles in circumference. 



From Lake St Clair issues the river Detroit, which falls 

 into Lake Erie, having the villages of Detroit, Sandwich, 

 and Amherstburgh, on its banks. Lake Erie is stated at 290 

 miles long, and about 50 broad, and from the many thriving 

 villages on its margins, has a most extensive and increasing 

 trade. Its waters are much shallower than those of any of the 

 other lakes, and more easily agitated, which renders the navi 

 gation dangerous in boisterous weather. From Lake Erie, 

 flows the Niagara, in the channel of which are the celebrated 

 falls of the same name, and empties itself into Lake Ontario, 

 which is 171 miles in length, and 40 wide. The depth of 

 water is said to be very great. On issuing from Lake Onta 

 rio, the waters assume the title of the river St Lawrence. 



I sailed from Detroit on the morning of the 25th October, 

 with moderate wind, which increased towards noon, and the 

 vessel anchored under the lee of an island in Lake Erie during 

 the night. Next day we put into Cleveland for an hour or 

 two, and reached Buffalo towards the close of the third day. 



Cleveland is in the state of Ohio, on the banks of Lake 

 Erie, and at the mouth of the Ohio and Erie canal, which 

 connects the waters of the lake with the river Ohio. It is a 

 place of considerable trade, and rising with rapidity. 



On reaching the Eagle hotel at Buffalo, I found three or 

 four gentlemen who were known to me, and whose conversa 

 tion on European matters I greatly enjoyed after my western 

 tour. Next day, after breakfast, I took a canal-boat for 

 Schenectady. 



In passing down the canal, on the banks of the Niagara, 



