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Vol. XXVIII.—No. 1. JULY, 1868 Whole No. 163. SCENES IN CANADA. BY MBS. E. OAKES SMITH. exultation as they leap the rocky Gulf of Niagara. Gathering up their white robes, they flow tranquilly through Lake Ontario, known to the Indian as Onontorio, which signifies handsome lake; thence issuing in state, they recommence their august march through the St. Lawrence to the ocean. The Grand River—La Grande Biviere—as the French delighted to call this wonderful river, is one of the most interesting flooded high- ways in the world; whether wild and tumult- uous, a thousand Niagaras rushing headlong to the sea, or moving jubilant amid her thou- sand isles—now expanding into fair lakes and anon sweeping in regal The traveller, in descending the St. Law- pleasant bays, and cities, she is always rence, ought, if possible, to commence his pomp by battlemented journey at Niagara, where the bugle notes of grand or beautiful. comfortable and the rapids form a fitting prelude to the organ- Sacket's Harbor is also a of departure for this excit- peal of this avalanche of waters. The vast convenient point situated on the south shore inward lakes of the northwest, moving majes- ing voyage. It is Bay, about eight miles from tically oceanward, seem to lift up a cry of of Black River i — Down the. St. Lawrence. Lake Ontario. The situation is very pictur- vary from an area containing many acres to esque, and the harbor, protected by a slip of that of a mere rock, with sufficient soil to land, which defends it from the sudden action embrace a single tree, or a green tuft of of violent winds, is at once safe and commo- clover, a handful of violets, or a few harebells, dious.
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