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captation of the word, seemed to be about three 
quarters of an English mile. 
Lake St. Louis, commencing, or rather ter¬ 
minating, at La Chine, for that village stands 
at the lower end of it, is about twelve miles 
in length, and four in breadth. At its upper¬ 
most extremity it receives a large branch of the 
Utawas River, and also the south-west branch 
of the Riyer St. Lawrence, which by some 
geographers is called the River Cadaraqui, 
and by others the River Iroquois ; but in the 
country, generally speaking, the whole of that 
river running from Lake Ontario to the Gulph 
of St. Lawrence, goes simply under the name 
of the St. LawrePiCe. 
At the upper end of Lake St. Louis the 
water is very shallow, owing to the banks of 
mud and sand washed up by the two rivers. 
These very extensive banks are entirely co¬ 
vered with reeds, so that when a vessel sails 
over them she appears at a little distance to bo 
absolutely sailing over dry land. As we passed 
along this part of the lake we were enveloped 
with clouds of little insects, different from 
any I ever saw before or afterwards in the 
country; but they are common, it is said, on 
Various parts of the River. St. Lawrence. Their 
size was somewhat larger than that of the 
gnat; their colour a pure white; and so deli¬ 
cately were they formed, that by the slightest 
