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ill. some places, ;ind what is called " Lake Kevcr," 

 hearing some resemblance to our country (ever, 

 sometimes, though rarely, occurs. The liivcr St. 

 Lawrence, contrary I., most rivers, which run south, 

 has a northeasterly course. Us shores ;iro rocky, 

 and in nuiny cases (he water is lifly led deej), only 

 three feel IVoin (he shore. I lldeed, the rocks seem 

 almost perpendicular, This river is studded will) 

 about seventeen liundred isl.-inds, sonic of th(>ni not 

 five led. wide. A rock rises out of tin 1 water to the 

 hei-hf of ten or twenty, or even a hundred foot. It 

 has a tree or two upon it, which withstands all the 

 storms and violence of this mighty river. Some- 

 times it looks like a dining tahle with an umbrella, 

 over it. Sometimes you imagine that a row of stono 

 houses, forming :i little village, lies boforo you; nt 

 other times, you fancy t here is a mighty cast le in 

 .sight. You think you see the cannon frowning 

 upon you ; hut it is all a deception, nil made hy < ho 

 hand of nature, and man has had nothing to do 

 \vilh it. The navigation is hy no means difficult. 

 There appear to he no sunken rocks, and M. man has 

 only to keep his eyes open, and avoid the little 

 islands that seem to float like ducks upon (he water.* 

 In general, the islands and the shore arc 4 sterilo 

 and there must he hard scratching for a living. 

 Here and there, you see a log cahin along the 

 wafer's edge with a sign hung out Oil some hemlock 

 tree, indicating that there 1 are accommodations for 

 the voyager miserable accommodations they must 

 he. On the Canada side, there are lino farms and 



orchards, many nohle stone houses, and, in somo 

 places, an appearance of wealth and plenty ; and on 

 the American side, wherever the land is good, cl wir- 

 ings are beginning to be made. Although this 13 



x Tliis was before he iva.-lu-d (he rapids at Montreal. 



