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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

The Richelieu and Lake Champlain

The Richelieu and Lake Champlain.

Navigation commences at Sorel, 46 miles below Montreal, at the mouth of the Richelieu, and continues 81 miles to Lake Chainpialn at the boundary line, connect- page 33 ing by that Lake and the Cham plain Canal with the Hudson River 331 miles to New York. Fourteen miles from sorel is the St. Ours Lock and Dam ? of a mile long, beyond which the river has a navigable depth of 7 feet to Chambly Basin Here the Chambly Canal, 12 mites long, overcomes the rapids of St. John and Chambly. The smallest locks on this navigation admit vessels of 260 feet tonnage.