Montreal, Ottawa and Kingston.

This route extends from Montreal to Kingston by the Lachine Canal, the Lower Ottawa River and Canals, and the Rideau River and Canals. Its total distance is 246¼ miles. From Lachine to St. Annes, at the outlet of Lake of Two Mountains, a widening of the Ottawa River, is 5 miles. Here a single lock, ? of a mile long, surmounts the St. Anne's Rapids Beyond this there is a navigable stretch for 27 miles to Carilton. The Carillon Canal is 2? miles long, followed by another navigable stretch of 4 miles to Chute a Blondeau. Here there is a short canal of ? of a mile, used only in ascending the river. Improvements are in course of being made, to replace, by an enlarged navigation, these two Canals, by damming the River Ottawa near Carillon, and i constructing a short canal with two locks on the north bank. About a mile and a half from Chute a Blondeau commences the Grenville Canal around the Long Sault Rapids. This is 5¾ miles long, it is being much enlarged, and when completed will have a depth of 10 feet, and bottom width 40 feet, with locks 200 by 45 feet, and 9 feet, water on the sills. From the head of this canal to the City of Ottawa is 56 miles; 107 miles above the City the Culbute Canal has been constructed to overcome the Culbute and L'Islet Rapids. It consists of two locks 200 by 45 feet, with six feet of water on the; sills, and dams 20 feet long, and opens a navigable reach of 80 miles on the Upper Ottawa. The Rideau Navigation is 126¼ miles long connecting the eastern end of Lake Ontario with the River Ottawa. The Ottawa part of the route passes by the Rideau River; the Kingston by the River Cataraqui. There are 47 locks, 134 by 32 feet, with 5 feet of water; 28 dams, in all 15,472 feet long, and 16½ miles of Canal, the longest being 4¼ miles, and the shortest only the 20th part of a mile. Vessels 110 feet long by 31½ broad and 250 tonnage may be used on this navigation.