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freight: besides this great chain, there are 

 many others of inferior dimensions, numerously 

 grouped in various parts, rendering the na- 

 vigation intricate, and in some places, par- 

 ticularly towards the west end, dangerous. On 

 this lake also, the navigator is often assailed by 

 violent storms, attended with thunder and light- 

 ning, more terrific than in any other part of 

 North America. At the western angle of Lake 

 Huron is Lake Michigan, which, although dis- 

 tinguished by a separate name, can only be 

 considered as a part of the former, deepening 

 into a bay of two hundred and sixty-two miles 

 in length by fifty-five in breadth, and whose en- 

 tire circumference is 731 miles. Between it 

 and Lake Huron there is a peninsula that, at the 

 widest part, is one hundred and fifty milesi 

 along which, and round the bottom of Michigan, 

 runs part of the chain forming the Land^'s 

 Height to the southward ; from whence descend 

 many large and numerous inferior streams that 

 discharge into it. On the north side of Lake 

 Huron many rivers of considerable size run 

 from the Land's Height down to it. One 

 of them, called French river, communicates 

 with Lake Nipissing, from whence a succession 

 of smaller ones, connected by short portages^ 

 opens an intercourse with the Ottawa river that 

 joins the St. Lawrence near Montreal. On 



