"B<pnnVd/rmn Ibe ~mrd>on R?rmd ?iiOloi<r, Ollohn, 1895?
Some Notes on the Rldeau Canal, the
Sources of its Water Supply, and its
Early History.
B~?A. T. DRaruowu.
A aa~ewbht wrr~ful invoatigiitioo iiiM the nntiire of tho
couot~g bordering on the Rideeu Canul,~? weli ss oE tbe
lakoaon ita eourae andoPits w?tei? p0wela-all inoonnestion
aitb s line oE irils~a~? no~~ beiilg? nur~oyed-hrw lad ta mv
asoei?taiiiing aome faots of intereJL wbicb I dssiie to bere
meotioo. Tt bae fortbor oacuri?cd u, rne tlint bere al~>
mightbea Atling plnce for a sbort i?esume of the faots-
rlmoat uokno\pn now in tliir oouiitrg-w)iioeotoil with the
inception aiirl oonatruotioii of tho esonl. Tnoas faota Ihave
abbi?uvintd from tbo ortcoriro manasclil>t notes-taken
fmm tbe Domioion nrobivesand otber souroa*. Ii well as
Eiom ~enol,iil recolleotion-Df Jlr. <\n?raur Diummond of
Ottirrpa, ~hose saw>ciition i~o<t olme fsmily ooniioolion with
t~o of tbe loadiog buildord of the ennal und pe~eonal
scquaintaiioo, foi~mat in 1882, witb otbsrd rvho planned ib
oooati~uction, enables him to apenk \sith nor ooly nume
interest, hul aseo somo autboi?itg.
4bs csnRl may be divided inlu the rivol? irnd tbe lake
dipi8ioos, tbe foimer oomprising tho nidenu RivBr inhich
wsa cbe ortioal outlel lo the Uttawa d the L~ppr and
Lower Ridosu Lnkoa lyiog beyond Smitb'a E~'alia. Tbe lake
disisioo, bnrid~r the4e t~o Ilikea. includss Mud, Dlesi?,
Indian, Opioioon, Saod, WbiUIBsb ai>d Crnnberi~y Lates, to
rbiob may be sdded the loo~ a~?tifieial Inke, knorn aa Wie
"di~owoed Isnds," oroaMd b~tween Wasbbuni an? Kingstoo
Mills, by tbe orection of ths liingaton Jlill's dnm. The
vaters oE UWBP Rido~U Lnke lorm the aommit lesol of the
w<oal syetem, aod are admitted hy the loclrs on eithsr side
of tbe lske to the Otta~aa Biier slope or to tbe SL. Law-
i?ence Rirer alope w the tl~ntffc on the oiinai reqninJ. The
immeose import~oce of keepiog a suffiaiont supply oPwateF
in tbis lake ia 8o obriouo Ib~it esorg mesna ah~old be takan
to husblind the <ssrers of ita feeders, Clesi?, Wolfe aod Saod
Lakee, ahiob pmpty inio it at ~eatport. The forset ooon-
trg amund these ooter la?ea ahoold be kepZ ss hr se pop