58 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA : 
• 
Names of Places. 
Distances 
in miles 
ascending. 
Breadth i* 
miles. 
To Lake St. Louis - - 
- 6 - 
i 
*“"“*4 
Lake St. Louis - - - 
- 12 - 
- 4 
To Lake St. Francis 
- 2b - 
i to 2 
Lake St. Francis - - - 
- 20 - 
- 5 
To the Lake of a Thousand 
Isles 
- 90 - 
£tol 
Lake of a Thousand Isles 
- %b 
- 6 
To Kingston, on Lake On-- 
tario - ~ - «v r 15 - 2~ to 6 
743 
«? ? 
During the whole of its course the St. 
Lawrence is navigable for bateaux of two tons 
burthen, except merely at the rapids above 
Montreal, at the Fall of the Thicket, and at 
the Long Fall, where, as has been already 
pointed out, it is necessary to lighten the ba¬ 
teaux, if heavily laden. At each of these places, 
however, it is possible to construct canals so as 
to prevent the trouble of unlading any part of 
the cargoes of the bateaux; and at a future 
day, when the the country becomes rich, s\ich 
canals no doubt will be made. 
Although the lakes are not immediately 
connected with the Atlantic Ocean by any 
©ther river than the St. Lawrence, yet there 
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