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Encyclopedia Britannica

NIPISSING

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 707 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM

NIPISSING , a lake of the

district

DISTRICT

of the same name in

Ontario

ONTARIO
ONTARIO, LAKE

, Canada, situated nearly midway between Lake

Huron

HURON
HURON (a
French
term, from huge', bristled, early used as an expression of contempt, signifying "lout ")

and the

Ottawa

OTTAWA

river, at an altitude of 644 ft. above the sea. It is of irregular shape, with bold shores, and contains many islands; from the

north

it receives the waters of

Sturgeon

STURGEON (Acipenser)

river. It is 5o m. in length and 20 in breadth; discharges its waters by

French

river into Lake

Huron

, and is separated by a low water-

shed

SHED

from the Mattawa river, a tributary of the

Ottawa

OTTAWA

. It has been proposed as the summit level of the projected Ottawa and Georgian Bay canal, an important project rendered difficult by the numerous rapids both on French river and on the Ottawa. With the Ottawa, Mattawa and French, it formed the old voyageur route from Montreal to the

Great

GREAT

Lakes.

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