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fifty miles, and its breadth varies between six 

 and twelve miles; the isthmus formed between 

 it and Lake Ontario, in the township of Mur- 

 ray, is not more than three furlongs broad, over 

 which there is a portage ; this inlet affords to 

 vessels safe shelter from the heavy gales fre- 

 quently experienced on the Lake. The penin- 

 sula on every side is indented by numerous 

 small bays and coves. Several rivers fall into 

 the ba}^ of which the largest are the Appannee, 

 the Shannon, the Moira, and the Trent; the 

 latter, flowing from Rice Lake, is the channel 

 by which the waters of a chain of shallow lakes 

 in the Newcastle district are brought into Lake 

 Ontario. On the south side of the Trent, in the 

 township of Percy, are several springs highly 

 impregnated with salt, and from which that ar- 

 ticle is made, but does not answer the purpose 

 of curing provisions; being found, by repeated 

 experiments, not to possess the preservative 

 qualities of sea salt. The townships on the 

 borders of the bay and on the peninsula are 

 thickly inhabited, and in a prosperous state of 

 cultivation; their produce of wheat and other 

 grain is very abundant, the soil being extremely 

 rich and very easily tilled: among the timber 

 there is some fine oak, pine, elm, and hickory. 

 A very short distance westward of the isthmus 

 of the bay of Quinte there is another small in-^ 



