Synopses & Reviews
More than any other natural boundary, rivers reflect the character of the men and women who settle a land. In America, the aborigines used them as a dividing line to mark the territories which could be claimed by the various tribes. Along the banks of these unmapped streams they held their councils of war and celebrated their festivals of peace; they fished and hunted; they gambled on their future and won or lost.
When the white men came, the waterways continued to be the highways of the explorers; on their banks were built first the homesteads of the pioneers
and then the cities, whose mills and factories were run by power furnished by waterfalls. Thus, in many ways the rivers became identified with the progress
of civilization. And of all the rivers, one of the most impressive was the great St. Lawrence.
"What river is this?" Cartier asked his Indian guide as he looked on the St. Lawrence. "A river without end," the red man replied.
This is the most comprehensive and yet succinct one-volume work ever written about those mighty waters which for a thousand miles act as a boundary between the United States and Canada; the river which Sir J. M. LeMoine called "The noblest, the purest, most enchanting river on all God's beautiful
earth..."