And the St.Lawrence is a mighty stream, Robert.

I reckon there's not another such river on the globe.

The Mississippi I suppose is longer, and carries more volume to the sea, but the St.Lawrence is full of clear water, Robert, think of that! Most all the other big rivers of the world, I hear, are muddy and yellow, but the St.Lawrence, being the overflow of the big lakes, is pure.

Sometimes it's blue and sometimes it's green, according to the sunlight or the lack of it, and sometimes it's another color, but always it's good, fresh water, flowing between mighty banks to the sea, the stream getting deeper and deeper and broader and broader the farther it goes, till beyond Quebec it's five and then ten miles across, and near the ocean it's nigh as wide as Erie or Ontario.

I'm always betting on the St.Lawrence, Robert.