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Vopi/ o/sli.i,rlJo,n-H)il ronldhud in u letter udilrr.ssed hi, Mrs Siinro, to her liiishnutl. the LictUeaanldoccrnm; in IT'JU, vhen on her way in a corercdhoat /nun Kinuslon to Montrail (mil Queliec. MrH.Jfiiiiosoii in her well-known work "WliiterStmliesand Suuiinor Iliiiiil)U'.s in (Canada," inftn ins us thai for " poifonning the bold feat of tlosconi ling the rapids of the Saidt Ste. Mario in a, canoe, she received the ()t( inpway name Wah-sahK>^-wah-n(>-(pia the wonum of the bright foam, by which title she was afterwards known among the Chippewas." This was in 1S;I7. Manv years pi-evionsly, viz., in 17JK), a lady in Canada earned with- out receiving a title like this, for a simdar but much more audacious exploit, by tlie descent in an ordiuaiy Ijateau of the rapids of the River- St. I^iwreiice, from Kingston to 'Cornwall, Jitid thence onward to Montreal and Quebec. The.se are the .same swift and t urbuJent waters that drewfiom the poet Moore, whose fortune it was to traverse them in 18()fl, his graphic allusions to *' Cadaiacjui's lordly tide" as it flows thiough "mossy w«)ods, through islets fl( wering fair," on which occa- sion also lie rescued from obscurity and made p(ipular for ever amongst u.s the air ap,.ii.K^:MatJi-SScAi Wt> HO fMituiiatt? as to posHoss it, would b«» of e(|iia1 intrn'sl, biil the Journal her<' pres; that a vessel lat(>ly built hereabout could carry 120 baii-els. She reports tliat a cer- tain disloyal settler from the United State.- has been building a sawmill on the opposite side of the St. Lawrem-e within sight of fohnstown, aiul that timber sawn there might, it is feared, be utilized for construct- ing rafts with a view to hostile incursions on the country at .some future time. Like the Poet Moore she cpie.stioned the French voyageurs as tf> the songs with which they beguiled the monotony of their daily ta.sks and induced an old man in her own bateau to sing " Les trois d'un Prill A\" which I fail to find in the collection which Ernest (iagnon has made of such productions, published at Quebec in 1H(J5, or in Le Reith Chansonie, printed in Montreal in 18(52. The Journal commenced at Kingston, September l.'jlh, 171X3. Mi'H. Simcoe appears to have been conducted to Kingston in one of the Government vessels under the command of Captain Bouchette, in regard to whom we have a separate memorandum at the foot of the first page of the Journal. She says: "Captairi Bouchette wanted to refuse the 1.') guineas., he said it was too much ; I believe he was very well satisfied." We are also told that ' Miss McDouell, Miss Bouchette, ('apt. Porter and Mr. Salmon came on board." The Journal itself opens as follows : — Monday, September 15th— Left Kingston at half past twelve in a boat wit,h a comfortable awning of hoops and oilcloth, accompanied by another bateau with baggage ; a fine sti'ong wind, delightful sailing. At four' the wind came on hard and we were obliged to row. In half an hour after we left Kingston it began to rain hard and continued the whole night. Carey's house shut up, as he had gone to Kingston ; rained too hard for me to pitch the tent or sleep in the bateau ; slept at Fairfield's house close by the mill at Gananoque, he is the farmer's son who built a small vessel ; she is now gone for- a load of flour to the Bay t)f Quint(5 ; I think I saw her in the harbour of Kingston, she has carried 12() barrels, looks much larger than the Tiandinsya. McGill stayed in the bateau. Fairfield said he had been 3.> miles back from h's present house to catch wliite fish, but having no means but spearing, and they are r"emai'kal>ly swift and diflicult to spear, he took but twenty-three, Wiis out two nights. The land at Gananoque is very bad, barren and fit for nothing, but half a mile back becomes ver'y good. September 18th — A very wet moi-ning after a night of incessant rain. The Canadian would not stir, so I waited to bi-eakfast. Mr, Stone, who is building a mill opposite Fairfield's, came and was extremely civil, brought butter and milk. About nine the rain ceased. I walked iSkitim>mst'ismi'aKtfa»urmiti! adds na a poHtHri'ipt : - Th*- K"'"K down lln' i-iviT is s<» flnt* athitm alfoj^i'lher F wislj fdi yon t«v«*ry tnoiiu'iit. I should lie in eistm i«>.s it yon wori- lu-ic Lo patl^kf of them. The skoU'hes intei's|)('rsfd in the Joiii-riHl are thf following : 1. ('arcy's Ilous*'. 2. Vii'W ffoni Kair field's honse. wheie I slept, near the mil! on Ciananoipie River. li. Laix^" view of KairHeld's hou.***'. 4. Lesser view of Kairfieid's lioiis*-, 5. IhU' l\)rl l^evy. (J. Point Irocpiois. 7. One mile below Point Iroiptoi-. h Captain Munro's house and rniil. These, it will he seen, were to he exainiticd hy .Mr. I). W, Smith, the then Sui'veyor-General of the province, and speedily retui-ned. In (he first volume of (he second series of Charles Knight's Penny Maga/ine are to he seen outline sketclies of Kingston, Ciiper' Canada, hy .Mi's. Sinieoe, possihly taken during this descent of tli»' liver. For these outlines access may have l)(>en had to a very curious collection of early Upper t'anada views, drawn hy Airs. Siincoe in colors on hirch hark, now in the Library of the Hritish .Museum. It was a kind of album prepared for presentation to King (ieorge the Third. It will not he an unfitting hupi>ietnent to the .lournal to add here the brief summary given l)y 1). NV. Smith, in his short topographical description of Upper Canada, 17!W>, of the small islands and ist)lated rocks in front of the several townships along Mrs. Simcoe's route down the river. It will give some idea of the intricacies and consetjuent perils of the route. The eruimeration is from e.-ist to west, the reverse of the order observed in the .Journal, and we are taken through the famous Thousand Islands — Les Milles Isles, as the French styled them. "The township of (-ornwall. Two branches of the River aux Raisins pass through the lands of this t(twnship, and in the front thereof are the Islt ; aux Mille Roches, et des ('henaux Kcartees, Gr.ind Isle, Point Ri'gis in front of the town of Cornwall itself. "The township of Osn.ibruck lie> above Cornwall, the River aux Raisins rises herein several branches; it has tws«'Ih may be nuvigali'd with safety t,o Qii«t«iiston. a love NiHgHra. and t«» all the p.irt.s of ilic Lak»' Ontario. In tho front of this tt.wnship i» Foint« an Cardinal, i'oinit' IriXjiioiM and I*oint»> an Fi in, and sevi-ral islands, ainonK wiiich arc Hospital Islanil and Isle du Foit I^fvy, wh»'re Jh»' Krcncli had a garrison, the ruins of which arc still to he seen. A little uhovc Johnstown (Ml thesonth shore is Koit (Ksweigatchie. situated on a river of that name. •* Augusta lies ahovc Kdvvardsh\ngh, it has but fewstrenms : Poiiite an Hariil is in front. "The next t<)Wii-ihi[) is Kli/.ahcth Town, which is well watered by the river Toiiianta and tlnce oth«!i' streams. The Isles du Harril lie iii front of this townsiiip. **The township of Yongc lies next, is of irregular shape. The river Tonianta empties itself into the St. Lawrcrue near the south-east angle of tliis township. Towards the upper part are the narrowti made by a peninsula from the north shore and (Grenadier island, which lies in front of this township, as do sevci'al smaller ones. " Lansdown is next, it has seveial small streams and many islands in its fi'ont, but none of any size. " Leeds adjoins Lansdown and is well watered by the river (iana- noque, which affords a good har-bor at its entrance." We have in the province of Ontario to this day a reminder (»f the clever and comageous lady, whose .lournal we hav»' been transcribing, in the township of («willimbury, (iwillim having been her maiden name In the Itegislci- and Magazine of Biography for 1