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examined with as great a degree of attention 

 as its magnitude lays claim to. The river 

 St. Lawrence, (which, from its first discovery in 

 1535, has been called by the inhabitants of 

 the country, to mark its pre-eminence, the 

 Great River,) receives nearly all the rivers that 

 have their sources in the extensive range of 

 mountains to the northwards, called the Land^s 

 Height^ that separates the waters falling into 

 Hudson's Bay still further to the north, from 

 those that descend into the Atlantic ; and all 

 those that rise in the ridge which commences 

 on its southern bank, and runs nearly south- 

 westerly until it falls upon Lake Champlain. 

 Of these, the principal ones are the Ottawa, 

 Masquinonge, Saint Maurice, Saint Anne, 

 Jacques Cartier, Saguenay,^ Betsiamites, and 

 Manicouagan on the north ; and the Salmon 

 river, Chateaugay, Chambly or Richelieu, 

 Yamaska, St. Francis, Becancour, Du Chene, 

 Chaudiere, and du Loup on the south. In 

 different parts of its course it is known under 

 different appellations; thus, as high up from 

 the sea as Montreal, it is called St. Lawrence; 

 from Montreal to Kingston in Upper Canada, 

 it is called the Cataraqui, or Iroquois; between 

 Lake Ontario and Lake Erie it is called Nia- 

 gara river ; between Lake Erie and Lake St. 

 Clair, the Detroit; between Lake St, Clair and 



