mills have been erected, but also in the townships through which it
flows.

At Peterborough the rapids cease, from whence the river becomes
navigable for steam-boats to the Rice Lake, at the distance of twenty-
one miles, which it enters after a course of fully two hundred and
fifty miles.

The Indian river takes its rise close to Stony Lake, from which it is
only divided by a narrow ridge of granite: this ridge has been cut
across at the sole expense of the Hon. Zacheus Burnham and Dr. John
Gilchrist, for the purpose of obtaining a larger supply of water for
the use of their mills at Warsaw, in Dummer and Keane, in Otonabee,
thus connecting the two rivers by this canal. This river flows through
the townships of Dummer, Douro, and Otonabee, its whole course not
exceeding thirty-five or forty miles, with the exception of a few small
streams. No other river of consequence flows into Rice Lake.

Our drive over the plains was truly delightful. New beauties presented
themselves at every step. It can hardly be imagined what a relief it is
to the eye, after travelling for miles through a dense forest, to see
such a beautiful landscape suddenly burst on your sight.

For nearly three miles our road lay through natural park-like scenery,
flowery knolls, deep ravines, and oak-crowned hills, with every now and
then the blue waters of the lake glittering through the trees. Our path
now entered a deep and finely-wooded ravine, which wound round the base
of steep hills on either hand, rising to a considerable height, their
summits crowned here and there with beautiful clumps of oak.