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tains the different articles used in ship-building. Opposite to the 
dock-yard, on a neck of land, is Fort Frederick, which I had 
not time to visit. Behind the dock-yard, upon a small height, 
stood a number of tents. We were informed that about four hun¬ 
dred Irish emigrants had encamped there, who had been sent to 
this country at the expense of the English government, to settle 
a piece of land on the north-western bank of Lake Ontario, whi¬ 
ther they were soon to go. The town of Kingston contains 
about two thousand inhabitants, and is built in the usual style. 
We left Kingston after eleven o’clock, on board the steam¬ 
boat Lady Dalhousie, for Prescott, sixty-eight miles from King¬ 
ston, on the left bank of the St. Lawrence. Adjutant .Maitland 
left us at Kingston, but the rest of the company remained. We 
had scarcely left this place before we sailed round a promontory 
on which stands Fort Henry, into the St. Lawrence. This river 
is kere very wide, and forms an archipelago about fifty miles in 
length, called the thousand islands. The English and American 
commissioners for determining the boundary line, took the pains 
to count these islands, and found that they amounted to sixteen 
hundred and ninety-two; in this calculation, however, they have 
included every projecting rock, even if it had but a single tree. 
This archipelago presents a beautiful prospect; most of the islands 
are rocky, and are overgrown with trees, generally cedars. Here 
and there a fir reared his lofty head, which, generally grow¬ 
ing upon the bare rocks, where the trees are less numerous, pre¬ 
sents a picturesque appearance. We observed something similar 
to the picture of Frederick, of which we were often reminded in 
descending the St. Lawrence* Eighteen miles from Kingston 
our vessel stopped at the village of Gananoqui, on the Canada 
shore, to take in wood. I went for a moment ashore and found 
an insignificant village, in the neighbourhood of which the river 
of the same name falls into the St. Lawrence. The Gananoqui 
river has a rocky bed, and is crossed by a wooden bridge, beyond 
which, upon a small eminence, is a square two story log-house, 
the upper story of which was formerly occupied as a garrison by 
about forty men. During the late war the Americans got posses¬ 
sion here of an English post and a magazine, in consequence of 
which they built this block-house. At the extremity of the archi¬ 
pelago of the thousands islands is a similar block-house for the pro¬ 
tection of the navigation of the river. 
On the Canada shore, about fifty miles below Kingston, where 
the archipelago terminates, is the small village of Brockville, 
where there are some fine magazines near the river. At this 
place the night set in, which was warm and moonlight. We found 
two taverns in the village, but they were so full of people, and 
had such a dirty appearance, that I preferred spending the night 
