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to a great extent, and a large manufactory 

 of pot and pearl ashes ; he has established a 

 school, erected a meeting-house, and adopted 

 various means to excite the industry, and secure 

 comfort and happiness to all classes of his little 

 society. His own habitation is pleasantly si- 

 tuated at the east end of the township, on the 

 bank of the Ottawa ; close by it there is a short 

 portage, and nearly fronting it are some small 

 islands that greatly obstruct and break the cur- 

 rent of the river; on the opposite side a fall, 

 twenty-six feet high, forms an agreeable object in 

 the prospect ; a little above this place is a reef 

 of rocks, stretching nearly across the river, and 

 the falls of La Petite Chaudiere. The town- 

 ships on the Ottawa abounding with timber of 

 the best growth, either for ship-building, mast- 

 ing, planking, or staves, it may be worth while 

 to remark that a very great proportion of that 

 trade has been furnished from them to Montreal 

 and Quebec ; not from tliose on the north side 

 only, but vast quantities have been supplied 

 from those on the south, in the Upper Province, 

 and the rafts of it brought down the rivers 

 Rideau and Petite Nation, into the Ottawa. 

 From the former, a road leading to the settle- 

 ments in the neighbourhood of Kingston will in 

 a short period, from the increasing population 

 and consequence of that district, become of 



