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lake lays open all Canada and the west — its commerce 

 and importance are likely to augment. In anticipation 

 of this, it has already been incorporated into a city. My 

 readers must not interpret this as indicating a very rapid 

 or high degree of prosperity, since the language of this 

 State, as I have already explained, recognises nothing 

 between a village and a city. 



Through this port, a large part of Upper Canada is 

 supplied with salt from the salines of Syracuse ; and 

 along the wharfs lay numerous little mountains of salt- 

 casks, waiting to be shipped. 



From Oswego to Sackett's Harbour was a run of forty- 

 five miles, along a shore which is still very much wooded. 

 Now and then, in the midst of the forest, a few burnings 

 became visible, showing the work of clearing to be still 

 in progress. 



Beyond Sackett's Harbour, on its north-eastern side, is 

 laid out the railway now in progress, which is to connect 

 Kingston in Upper Canada, across the Ten Thousand Isles, 

 with Rome in the State of New York, and thence by the 

 existing line with Albany. It will be a great boon to 

 Canada when it is finished, and a matter of much 

 moment also to the city of New York. 



The village of Sackett's Harbour shows nothing to 

 arrest attention, beyond its hotel, and some signs of 

 increase in size. After stopping about an hour we 

 started again for Kingston, which is forty miles across 

 the lake, making in all a distance, by this route, of two 

 hundred and thirty miles from Lewiston to Kingston. 



The harbour (Sackett's) and the islands about its mouth, 

 and among which we steamed, made this part of the 

 voyage very pleasant. We passed the main channel o^ 

 the St Lawrence, which is about a mile in width, ^ 

 up N. by E. at Simcoe Island, on which the llgh 

 stands, and then sailed a straight course of mr 

 for Kingston. Long before the eye could m- 



