ft® TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA: 
Many of these islands are scarcely larger than 
a bateau, and none of them, except such as 
are situated at the upper and lower extremities 
of the lake, appeared to me to contain more 
than fifteen English acres each. They are all 
covered with wood, even to the very smallest. 
The- trees on these last are stunted in their 
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growth, but the larger islands produce as fine ' 
.■timber as is to be found on the main shores of 
the lake. Many of these islands are situated 
so closely together, that it would be easy to 
throw a pebble from one to the other, not¬ 
withstanding which circumstance, the passage 
between them is perfectly safe and commodious 
-for bateaux, and between some of them that 
•are even thus close to each other is water 
sufficient for a frigate. The water is uncom¬ 
monly clear, as it is in e very part'of the river, 
from Lake St. Francis upwards : between that 
lake and the Utawas Fryer downwards it is 
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discoloured, as I have before observed, by 
passing over beds of marl. The shores of all 
these islands under our . notice are rocky ; 
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iiiost of them rise very boldly, and some 
exhibit perpendicular masses of rock towards 
the water upwards of twenty feet high. The 
scenery presented to view in sailing between 
these islands, is beautiful in the highest degree-. 
Sometimes, after passing through a narrow 
strait,- you find yourself in a., bason, land-locked 
