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Les diagrammes suivants lllustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 {Alt vight» reserved). ADVANCE P^OOf-niuii>!-ion were not in- tended as permanent points of reference, and some of theni, notably that at Sorel itself, is unfortunately unreliable. Lines of levels have been run on both banks of the !^t. Lawrence by ,Mr, St(x-kcl of the Depart- ment of Public Works, but the autlier is not aware that tho gauges have been established in connection with these. Plate No. 11 gives the relative water levels in 188Gand 1895 as nearly as the writer has been able to obtain them. There is an un- certainty amounting to about 10 inches. The great question of the causes which lca4, combined with tho effect of an abnormal deficiency of rainfall from 1887 to 1895, excepting tlie years 1892 imd 1893. At the beginning of this same period in 1887, Lake Ontario was high, bnt two years of exceedingly small rainfall rapidly lowered the level. In 1889 and 1890, the rain- fall was above average, and temporarily checked the fidl which wotild 3 liavo rcHulted from the low water in tlio Upper Lakes ; hut in 1891, a mnrkoJ tlclieiunoy of precipitation Lrnught a very low winter stage. Two yeiirH, 1892 and 189H, of almvo average rainfall now improved the level a little, but the defieiency of rainfall in 18!)4 iind 1895, nnd parti- cularly in the hitter year, in uonjunction with the etVect of a Hniall in- take of water by the Niagara Kivcr, doubtless produced the iilmost phcDomonally low Htago of the past year. I believe that these I'lictH are amply sufficient to explain the present state of afTaiis In view of these facts it Ih quite uiirea.soniiblo to suppose that Lake Ontario will, tliis year or oven next year, attain a high stage, the increase is likely to bo gradual, Lake Superior in, as we have seen already, high ; this will help to rait^e the level of Huron, which lake will rise if the rainfall be even up to the average, and then with au im- proving head of water in that lake, and consequently in Krie, the flow by the Niagara will improve and assist in raising the level of Ontario ; but with so many factors to be considered, it is impossible to predict with any certainty how long it will be before a really high stage is again reached." 4 OB! V 7%f ^/SC/(^/rff£ /°i/r/Y s//oir//rs fit ^^^^^^^^^...^..J,^^ \ "Sl/L^ W>r) SI XIV- WO-rrr^f -O- mM^^^t- ftwij.tt^ Scale of Put. L ^ ^ — 5^.. — ^. TRANSACTIONS CAN SOC C t. 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