THB SAINT LAURENCE. . 
lilt internal, a ready conveyance beins; furnished 
j of the productions of the country, but with 
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■ 3 paci 
. ,'iy to bring back foreign produce in return, 
state of Kentucky many ships are built. 
“atim 
ig down the Ohio, proceed to the gulf of 
C*’V 'aking the benefit of the current which con- 
((''’• 1 , to tl>e northward, through the straits of Ba- 
their destined port on the eastern coast of 
Itterica, with great safety and celerity. One 
ij '^'tpedinicnt, however, to this navigation on the 
Considerate fall, about the latitude of thirty- 
i -tut north. This fall has, however, a gradual 
diN’ 
‘*th, 
_ Wh is continued for half a league. There is 
ttble variation in the quantity of water wdiich 
cf this river at different seasons of the year ; 
larei becomes shallow, the deptli of water at the 
•W. _ , - 
^ ^ttffices to convey light boats down the stream. 
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alth great Canadian 
df|, °'^Sh it is known to hai 
It, 
THE SAINT LAURENCE. 
river has never been 
, , _ have communication, by 
a *1)0 interior of the country, to a vast extent. 
jt-tj 
Vr^''® d '^’^ters into a large gulf, extending Irom 
tliirty minutes, to fifty-one degrees of 
ll '^h 1- . I,.1 J_ _X'* XT— 
xk lULCilur ui iiie luuuu^^ uj a vasi. calciii.* 
df^tges 'Cttstern course of many hundred miles, it 
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,i ^ islands of Newfoundland and Cape 
between it and the great Atlantic ocean. It 
tChfrom sWps as high as Quebec, four hun- 
bt) *‘®decl its mouth; but higlier up, the navigation 
XH^tidaiu and shoals. The difficulties and dan- 
kt(j >11 j, cii it Were greatly exaggerated by the French, 
a of Canada ; but since the latter has 
** colony, the utmost attention has been 
'>Vor„ , ?rm accurate charts of this river, and to 
V, ' 
y q! j 
n-"!,. 'h's safe navigation 
Vjlte t,;‘bmortal Cook 
river. 
In executing these 
for some time employed. 
‘"'.biy a circumnavigator ; and the abilities he 
J'ts)ii| ffiaq American rivers, however inferior to 
described, and to those of South America, 
*0 pj. Stand scale by which the face ot that conti- 
^'cniinently distinguished. On the eastern 
' laid tlie foundation of his future fame. 
