itiile 
LAKE ONTARIO. SOQ 
in lengtli, but not so impetuous as en- 
Tlie southern 
® Huron runs into a strait, which soon after 
small lake called St. Claire, from which 
named Detroit. The latter discharges 
to ^ 
of til® navigation downward. 
>nj 
T|,S 
is til® distance between which and lake 
pShty miles. 
% 
1q uq extends about three hundred miles from 
in 1 ‘'■® 8 st, and in its widest part is about seventy 
'^'•eadth - - - - 
tlai 
ti, 'lariffp '"“'‘1 from north to south. Its navigation is 
I'ijjK [°tis than that of tlie other lakes, on account of 
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on its borders projecting into the waters, 
„ - 'when sudden storms arise, canoes and 
''squently lost, there not being any place to 
or retreat. Several islands near its western 
J*re So infested by venomous snakes, that it is 
them. It discharges its waters, 
oxtremity, into lake Niagara. 
''tiriu'’^rro«,*^***®'^*^' *0 the west of lake Huron, is 
if„ -qiTQ^ Huron, is long 
*’'i|fc '^®st t ®^t®riding nearly two hundred miles from 
’’’Ci^otjj „°..,®°oth-east, and having a breadth of 
0 north to south. 
which 
and 
H, 
’etai 
Olli 
a breadth ot forty 
Between these two lakes a pe- 
runs to a point at the north- 
same side is a strait about forty 
oalled the Grand Traverse, within which 
s inhabited by Indians. This strait leads 
on the 
Islands 
and no “““•U'LCU uy iiiuums. at.o.t iciu.i 
% k 'l>e p narro-vv bay, called Green Bay, into which 
la"''* itihak- oear the Mississippi, and having 
^ powerful tribe of Indians. 
Its y'^®^o is tlie smallest of the five great Canadian 
la nearly oval, its greatest length being 
mil ®outh-west, and its circumference about 
V *i 
s of' *1!' I'^oar to the south-east part it receives 
itsgif ? Oswego river, and on the nortli-east 
To rivg. „ Into tlie river Cataraqui, communicating 
great lakes, are lakes George 
^ to’jjj* lake's most northern lake visited by the 
'Orbon, extending to 51® north latitude ; 
'l^ij^lth ' ot this is lake Winneteek, communi- 
lakif c l*y ^ strait. From this lake a riva 
0 *nperior. 
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