from Lake Superior, forcing its way thtongli 

 a confined channel, and breaking with pro- 

 poilionate violence among the impediments 

 that nature has thrown in its way; yet this 

 scene of tumultuous and unceasing agita- 

 tion of the waters, combined with the noise 

 and dazzling whiteness of the surge, is not de- 

 ficient either in grandeur or magnificence. Lake 

 Huron, in point of extent, yields but little to 

 Lake Superior ; its greatest length from west 

 to east is two hundred and eighteen statute 

 tpiles ; at the western extremity it is less 

 than one hundred, and at about one hun- 

 dred miles from its eastern shore barely sixty 

 miles broad ; but near the centre it suddenly 

 trends away southward to the breadth of one 

 hundred and eighty miles ; measuring the cir- 

 cumference through all its curvatures, wall 

 give a distance of little less than eight hundred 

 and twelve miles : in shape it is exceedingly ir- 

 regular, yet, with a little assistance from fancy, 

 may be fashioned into something like a tri* 

 angular form. From its western side an ex- 

 tensive series, called the Mahatoulin islands, 

 stretches in an easterly direction foi- one hun- 

 dred and sixty miles, many of them measuring 

 from twenty to thirty miles in length, by ten, 

 twelve, and fifteen in breadth, on some of which 

 the land rises iato elevations of considerable 



