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[Magnotti M. <cur...@en...>]

T. Lawrence,
first appeared in
the _Liverpool Mercury_, the Editors of which state that they have
published it by permission

of the writer,

who is a well-known
merchant of great respectability in that city. We have extracted it
from the pages of the _Edinburgh
Magazine_, the Editor of which remarks,--"We have been
induced to transfer it into our Miscellany, not merely from the
uncommon interest of the detail, but because we happen to be able to
vouch for its authenticity."

On the 22nd day of April, 1810, our party
set sail in a large schooner from Fort-George, or Niagara Town, and in
two days crossed Lake Ontario to Kingston, at the head of the river
St. Lawrence, distant from Niagara about 200 miles. Here we hired an
American barge (a large flat-bottomed
boat) to carry us to Montreal, a further distance of 200
miles; then set out from Kingston on the 28th of April, and arrived
the same evening at Ogdensburgh, a distance of 75 miles. The following
evening we arrived at Cornwall, and the succeeding night at Pointe du
Lac, on Lake St. Francis. Here our bargemen obtained our permission to
return
up the river; and we embarked in another barge, deeply laden with
potashes, passengers, and luggage. Above
Montreal, for nearly 100 miles, the river St. Lawrence is interrupted
in its course by rapids, which are occasioned
by the river
being confined in comparatively narrow, shallow, rocky
channels;--through

these it rushes with great force and noise, and is agitated like the
ocean in a storm. Many people prefer these rapids, for grandeur of
appearance,
to the Falls of Niagara. They are from half a mile to nine miles long
each, and require regular pilots. On

the 30th

of April we arrived at the village of the Cedars, immediately below
which are three sets of very dangerous rapids (the Cedars, the
Split-rock, and the Cascades), distant from

each other abo