Voyage of the Paper Canoe

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Bishop. Voyage of the Paper Canoe

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. THE APPROACHES TO THE WATER-WAY OF THE CONTINENT

CHAPTER II. FROM QUEBEC TO SOREL

CHAPTER III. FROM THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER TO TICONDEROGA, LAKE CHAMPLAIN

CHAPTER IV. FROM LAKES GEORGE AND CHAMPLAIN TO THE HUDSON RIVER

CHAPTER V. THE AMERICAN PAPER BOAT AND ENGLISH CANOES

CHAPTER VI. TROY TO PHILADELPHIA

CHAPTER VII. PHILADELPHIA TO CAPE HENLOPEN

CHAPTER VIII. FROM CAPE HENLOPEN TO NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

CHAPTER IX. FROM NORFOLK TO CAPE HATTERAS

CHAPTER X. FROM CAPE HATTERAS TO CAPE FEAR, NORTH CAROLINA

CHAPTER XI. FROM CAPE FEAR TO CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

CHAPTER XII. FROM CHARLESTON TO SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

CHAPTER XIII. FROM THE SAVANNAH RIVER TO FLORIDA

CHAPTER XIV. ST. MARY'S RIVER AND THE SUWANEE WILDERNESS

CHAPTER XV. DOWN UPON THE SUWANEE RIVER

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WHILE on his passage to the ports of the St. Lawrence River, the mariner first sights the little island of St. Paul, situated in the waste of waters between Cape Ray, the southwestern point of Newfoundland on the north, and Cape North, the northeastern projection of Cape Breton Island on the south. Across this entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence from cape to cape is a distance of fifty-four nautical miles; and about twelve miles east-northeast from Cape North the island of St. Paul, with its three hills and two light-towers, rises from the sea with deep waters on every side.

This wide inlet into the gulf may be called the middle portal, for at the northern end of Newfoundland, between the great island and the coast of Labrador, another entrance exists, which is known as the Straits of Belle Isle, and is sometimes called "the shorter passage from England." Still to the south of the middle entrance is another and a very narrow one, known as the Gut of Canso, which separates the island of Cape Breton from Nova Scotia. Through this contracted thoroughfare the tides run with great force.

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The ship being now within the estuary of the St. Lawrence River, must encounter many risks before she reaches the true mouth of the river, at the Bic Islands.

The shores along this arm of the gulf are wild and sombre. Rocky precipices frown upon the swift tidal current that rushes past their bases. A few small settlements of fishermen and pilots, like Metis, Father Point, and Rimousky, are discovered at long intervals along the coast.

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