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CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 21 as it were, sea-waves lashed by tempestuous winds under a burning' and unclouded sky, is perhaps as exciting as this or any country offers. The landscape along the shore is in some parts romantic, exhibiting a few villages with handsome churches and parsonages and mills, with an uninterrupted succession of cottages on the water’s edge. The excitement is enhanced by a sense of risk accompanying the vessel as she sweeps with the utmost speed close past islands and rocks, whilst her straight course in the channel is maintained by the steady exertions of eight voyageurs at the wheel and rudder. A con-, siderable island, called Grande Isle, lies a little below the east end of the Lake. In order to open up a communication between this Lake and the next expanse, called Lake St. Louis, which is twenty- four miles in length, the Beauharnois Canal has been constructed by Government at a cost of £162,281. It is eleven-and-a-quarter miles long, and has nine locks.—The St. Lawrence, on emerging from the Cascades, receives a great influx of waters from the Ottawa? and their combined waters form Ihe expanse of Lake St. Louis, at the western extremity of which is the considerable island of Isle Perrot, and along the north shore is the Island of Montreal, which is above thirty miles in length. For some distance below the junc tion the brown waters of the Ottawa roll on unmixed with the clear stream of the St. Lawrence. At the outlet of the Lake on the right is the Iroquois settlement ofC.v’JGHNAWAGA or “ The Village of the Rapids,” in allusion to those that lie a little below. It was granted for their benefit by Louis XIV. in 1780, and enlarged by Governor Frontenac. These Indians in summer chiefly subsist by navi gating barges and rafts down to Montreal, and in winter by the sale of snow-shoes, moccassins, See. They are Roman Catholics, and have lately rebuilt a handsome and, substantial church They behaved nobly during the recent disturbances, and since that period have received special marks of Her Majesty’s favour.—On the left bank stands Lachine, the central situation of which bids fair to en sure its growth and prosperity. Here is the residence of Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and of the staff' of officers in charge of this, the principal post of the company. Hence emanate the instructions, received from head-quarters in Lon-