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within the Ottawa river, the 81 degree of west 

 longitude, and the 52 parallel of north latitude, 

 intersected laterally by another and higher 

 range of mountains that tornts the Land's 

 Height, and divides the waters that empty into 

 the St. Lawrence from those that descend 

 into Hudson's Bay. Of this great space so 

 little has been explored, that it is only known 

 to be covered with immense forests, whose 

 dreary solitudes are interrupted only by the 

 wandering tribes of natives who occasionally 

 resort thither in their hunting parties to pro- 

 cure furs for traffic with the nearest posts of 

 the north-west company. It is in America 

 that nature has displayed her powerful hand in 

 fornniig objects of sublimity and grandeur, 

 more imposing than what are to be met with 

 in other parts of the world; the mountains 

 there rise to an elevation but rarely equalled, 

 and range to a distance unexampled on the 

 old continent. The rivers roll their gigantic 

 streams to the ocean, unparalleled for length 

 of course, and affording facilities for intercourse 

 with the most remote parts that are quite un- 

 known in other countries ; the forests spread 

 out to an extentj and abound with trees of 

 a variety, magnitude, and utility that defies 

 comparison with the most enormous of the 

 other hemisphere. But, perhaps, of all the 



