"The details of the inland Canadian route, briefly, are as follows: By C.P.R. to Calgary, and thence north by rail to Edmonton; from there by stage to Athabasca Landing, 40 miles; then, there is a continuous waterway for canoe travel to Fort Macpherson, at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, from which point the Peel River lies southward to the gold region.

The average width is between a half and three quarters of a mile, but there are many expansions where it is over a mile in breadth; however, in these places it cannot be said that the waterway is wider than at other parts of the river, the islands being so large and numerous.

Of all labour, this steering of logs through dense forest to their appointed waterway is the hardest and roughest.

There is nothing that is not beautiful on the waterway from Lake Huron to Lake St. Clair.

But the old order had changed, and a day had come when the dike had been cut through, the lazy water let out into the surrounding flats, and the old waterway left to the willows and the wild-flowers, the mink and the musk-rat.

He was learned in the geography of the valley and told us how once the Cohocton River, now merely a decorative stream among willows, was once a serviceable waterway, how it was once busy with mills, and how men used to raft down it as far as Elmira.

And like a phantom ever at his side Pointing each hour to paths he scarce could see, By wood and waterway, went one still guide, Who drifted with the shades, when daylight died, Into the deep of night, and mystery.

In years gone by the importance of this waterway was enormous.

Congress refused to authorize the preparation of a great plan of waterway development in the general interest, and for ten years has declined to pass the Appalachian and White Mountain National Forest bill, although the people are practically unanimous for both.

THE OLD DOMINION As seen from its Colonial waterway, the Historic River James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time.

This volume was formerly published under the title, "Houseboating on a Colonial Waterway"; but its appropriateness for inclusion in the "See America First Series" to represent the State of Virginia is so obvious that the publishers have, in this new edition, changed the title to "Virginia: The Old Dominion," and reissued the book in a new dress, generally uniform with the other volumes in the series.

As Gadabout sturdily headed her stubby bow up the wide, majestic waterway, we looked about us.

Out again in the James (still some four miles wide), we felt that Nature had almost overdone the matter of supplying us with a waterway for our voyage.

We could make out little yet but the low wooded shore and the wide opening that we knew was the mouth of Back River, the waterway that cuts off from the mainland that storied piece of soil.

But this great pioneer waterway, fit theme for an ode, is to-day our unsung river.

Old cypress trees stepped out into the river on either side, while a row of stakes seemed to indicate the channel of the little waterway.

We had to stop just before coming to an island standing in a sharp turn of the little waterway.

In fact, for a good deal of the time it was not a waterway at all.

We found Herring Creek a good, lazy houseboating waterway; a brown ribbon of marsh stream wandering aimlessly among the rushes.

"This is the hush of poppy-land, and we are drifting on the quiet brown waterway that leads through the sleepy, endless afternoon.

As seen from its Colonial waterway, the Historic River James By Frank and Cortelle Hutchins $5.00 A number of additional volumes are in preparation, including Maine, Utah, Georgia, The Great Lakes, Louisiana, etc., and the "See America First" Series will eventually include the whole of the North American Continent.

Helen Fern Daringer (A); 24Nov65; R374466. DARK, ELEANOR. Waterway.

FRANZIUS, OTTO. Waterway engineering.

A dirty but most picturesque waterway between the Dal and the Anchar Lakes.

For although the moon, by this time high aloft behind his right shoulder, shone fair along the waterway to the Island, the grey mass of which loomed up like the body of a sea-monster anchored and asleep in the offing, he soon discovered that his own strength would never suffice to drive the boat so far.