368 I.AKES. 
" and the eyes no longer able to view the 
This occurred in the month ot' July ; and, 
surface of the water, from the heat of the p 
was warm, still on letting down a cup to the ^^5,1'* 
about a fathom, the water drawn thence was so e^ |jt‘ 
cold, that it had nearly the same effect as ice, 
into the mouth. 
Lake Superior is said to receive nearly fort)' 
streams of water: the two principal rivers arc 'h 
pegon, from the north, and the Michipicooton> . ,,iiaf ; 
west. By tlie means of the latter a cominoo 
established with the lakes Bourbon, 
DU Bois } and in this river the source of the \i’^. 
IS said to have been traced. A small river on 
oefore it enters the lake, has a perpendicular fnl 
top of a mountain, of more than six hundred fc^ ' 
awery narrow channel. In this lake, < 
passage only, St. Mary’s strait, for the discb^'°gP # 
waters, there are many islands, two of which a jjeDv'^ 
extent. The largest " ' ' ~ . is ., 
hundred miles from 
from north to south. Mikop.4U Isle js p^i 
siderable extent ; and at die entrance of \pC’V 
cluster of small islands, called “ The twelv®|^.^j, 
On the south side of the lake is a peninsula. ''' 
into the lake sixty luilco. 
of them. Isle RovaLi 
east to west, and about , t 
is like"';’®jj 3 j'’*' 
LAKE HURON. 
This lake is next in magnitude to the one desct jjj S'jy 
being about a thousand miles in circumference-^ isy 
is nearly triangular ; and on its north side 
nearly an hundred miles in extent from east jj/ 
about eight from nordi to south : it is called 
Manalaulin, which signifies the abode of t’ 
west point of the Like are the straits of 
which unite with lake Michigan; and about 
the north-cast of these .straits are those ot ^ ’ gup|;|,;t^ 
which lake Huron communicates with 1 ® 0]^, '' 
They are about foity miles in length, and 
are not, however, perpendicular, like those ot ^^{ 
the waters of which pass along a sloping bottonii^j^ijut 
that account named the rarjds. These ate 
