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the Paper Canoe' a success."
After returning from this paper-canoe voyage, the author embarked
alone, December 2, 1875, in a cedar duck-boat twelve feet in length,
from the head of the Ohio River, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and

followed the Ohio and Mississippi rivers over two thousand miles to
New Orleans, where he made a portage through that city eastwardly to
Lake Pontchartrain, and rowed along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico
six or seven hundred miles, to Cedar Keys, Florida, the terminus of his
paper-canoe voyage.
While on these two voyages, the author rowed over five thousand miles,
meeting with but one accident, the overturning of his canoe in
Delaware Bay. He returned to his home with his boats in good
condition, and his note-books, charts, &c., in an excellent state of
preservation.
At the request of the "Board on behalf of the United States Executive
Department" of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, the paper
canoe "Maria Theresa," and the cedar duck-boat "Centennial Republic,"
were deposited in the Smithsonian Department of the United States
Government building, during the summer and fall of 1876.
The maps, which show the route followed by the paper canoe, have
been drawn and engraved by contract at the United States Coast Survey
Bureau, and are on a scale of 1/1,500,000. As the work is based on the
results of actual surveys, the maps may be considered, for their size, the
most complete of the United States coast ever presented to the public.
Much credit is due to Messrs. Waud and Merrill for the artistic results
of their pencils, and to Messrs. John Andrew & Son for their skill in
engraving the illustrations.
To the readers of the author's first book of travels, "The Pampas and
Andes: a Thousand Miles' Walk across South America," which journey
was undertaken when he was but seventeen years of age, the writer
would say that their many kind and appreciative letters have prompted
him to send forth this second book of travels -- the "Voyage of the
Paper Canoe."
LAKE GEORGE, WARREN COUNTY, N. Y., JANUARY 1, 1878.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE APPROACHES TO THE WATER-WAY OF THE
CONTINENT.
ISLAND OF ST. PAUL. -- THE PORTALS OF THE GULF OF ST.
LAWRENCE. -- THE EXTINCT AUK. -- ANTICOSTI ISLAND. --
ICEBERGS. -- SAILORS' SUPERSTITIONS. -- THE ESTUARY OF
THE ST. LAWRENCE. -- TADOUSAC. -- THE SAGUENAY RIVER.
-- WHITE WHALES. -- QUEBEC.
CHAPTER II.
FROM QUEBEC TO SOREL.
THE WATER WAY INTO THE CONTINENT. -- THE WESTERN
AND THE SOUTHERN ROUTE TO THE GULF OF MEXICO. --
THE MAYETA. -- COMMENCEMENT OF THE VOYAGE. --
ASCENT of THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE. -- LAKE. of ST. PETER.
-- ACADIAN TOWN OF SOREL.
CHAPTER III.
FROM THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER TO TICONDEROGA, LAKE
CHAMPLAIN.
THE RICHELIEU RIVER. -- ACADIAN SCENES. -- ST. OURS. --
ST. ANTOINE. -- ST. MARKS. -- BELOEIL. -- CHAMBLY CANAL.
-- ST. JOHNS. -- LAKE CHAMPLAIN. -- THE GREAT SHIP
CANAL. -- DAVID BODFISH'S CAMP. -- THE ADIRONDACK
SURVEY. -- A CANVAS BOAT. -- DIMENSIONS OF LAKE
CHAMPLAIN. -- PORT KENT. -- AUSABLE CHASM. -- ARRIVAL
AT TICONDEROGA.
CHAPTER IV.

FROM LAKES GEORGE AND CHAMPLAIN TO THE HUDSON
RIVER.
THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE GEORGE BY FATHER JOGUES. -- A
PEDESTRIAN JOURNEY. -- THE HERMIT OF THE NARROWS. --
CONVENT OF ST. MARY'S of THE LAKE. -- THE PAULIST
FATHERS. -- CANAL ROUTE FROM LAKE. CHAMPLAIN TO
ALBANY. -- BODFISH RETURNS TO NEW JERSEY. -- THE
LITTLE FLEET IN ITS HAVEN OF REST.
CHAPTER V.
THE AMERICAN PAPER BOAT AND ENGLISH CANOES.
THE PECULIAR CHARACTER OF THE PAPER BOAT. -- THE
HISTORY OF THE ADOPTION OF PAPER FOR BOATS. -- A
BOY'S INGENUITY. -- THE PROCESS OF BUILDING PAPER
BOATS DESCRIBED. -- COLLEGE CLUBS ADOPTING THEM. --
THE GREAT VICTORIES WON BY PAPER OVER WOODEN
SHELLS IN 1876.
CHAPTER VI.
FROM TROY TO PHILADELPHIA.
PAPER CANOE MARIA THERESA. -- THE START. -- THE
DESCENT OF THE HUDSON RIVER. -- -- CROSSING THE UPPER
BAY OF NEW YORK. -- PASSAGE OF THE KILLS. -- RARITAN
RIVER. -- THE CANAL ROUTE FROM NEW BRUNSWICK TO
THE DELAWARE RIVER. -- FROM BORDENTOWN TO
PHILADELPHIA.
CHAPTER VII.
FROM PHILADELPHIA TO CAPE HENLOPEN.
DESCENT OF DELAWARE RIVER. -- MY FIRST CAMP. --
BOMBAY HOOK. -- MURDERKILL CREEK. -- A STORM IN

DELAWARE BAY. -- CAPSIZING OF THE CANOE. -- A SWIM
FOR LIFE. -- THE PERSIMMON GROVE. -- WILLOW GROVE
INN. -- THE LIGHTS OF CAPES MAY AND HENLOPEN.
CHAPTER VIII.
FROM CAPE HENLOPEN TO NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
THE PORTAGE TO LOVE CREEK. -- THE DELAWARE
WHIPPINGPOST. -- REHOBOTH AND INDIAN RIVER BAYS. -- A
PORTAGE TO LITTLE ASSAWAMAN BAY. -- ISLE OF WIGHT
BAY. -- WINCHESTER PLANTATION. -- CHINCOTEAGUE. --
WATCHAPREAGUE INLET. -- COBB'S ISLAND. --
CHERRYSTONE. -- ARRIVAL AT NORFOLK. -- THE
"LANDMARK'S" ENTERPRISE.
CHAPTER IX.