down upon its waters one of the most inviting any-
where to be enjoyed.

Humboldt Lake, Uh., lies E. from Pyramid
Lake, and receives the waters of Humboldt River.

Humboldt Lake, Ma. Situated E. from North
Red River.

Humboldt River. It rises in two large forks
among the Humboldt Mts, flows in a circuitous
S- W. direction, and empties into Humboldt Lake.

Humboldt River Mountains, Uh., lie in the N.
interior of the state, and run nearly N. and S.

Humphrey's Creek, Ballard co.. Ky., flows N. W.,
and empties into the Ohio.

Humquolques River and Pond, Me., are situat-
ed in Aroostook and Penobscot counties. The
river is a branch of Aroostook River.

Hunger's Creek, Northampton co., Va. A small
inlet from Chesapeake Bay.

Hungry Bay, Jefferson co., N. Y., is a large ex-
panse of water in the E. part of Lake Ontario.
Black and Chaumont Rivers empty into it
through bays of the same name.

Hunter's Island, Westchester co., N. Y., lies in
Long Island Sound, and is attached to the town
of Pelham.

Hunting Islands, Beaufort district, S. C. This
group lies between St. Helena Sound and Broad
River, and S. E. from St. Helena Island.

Huntington Bay is situated in the town of Hunt-
ington, Suffolk co., N. Y., on the N. side of Long
Island, between Eaton's and Lloyd's Necks. It
is a safe harbor, and abounds with shell and scale
fish and wild fowl.

Huntington River, Vt., waters the towns of
Lincoln, Starksborough, and Huntington, and
joins Winooski River in Richmond. Its course
is very rapid. Length about 20 miles.

Huron Bay, Houghton co., Mn., lies E. from
Keewaiwona Bay, and communicates on the N.
with Lake Superior.

Huron Islands, Mn. A small group lying in
Lake Superior, at the mouth of Huron Bay.

Huron, Lake. One of the five great lakes of
North America, and the third of the chain, pro-
ceeding W., lying between Canada West and the
United States. This extensive sheet of water
is nearly divided, by the peninsula of Canada
West and by the chain of Manitou Islands in
the N. part, forming, with this peninsula, almost
a continuous land barrier, into three sections, the
largest of which, lying S. of the islands, may be
called Lake Huron Proper, while that directly N.
of this range of islands has been denominated,
by Tanner, Manitou Bay, and that which is
nearly cut off by the peninsula and the N. pro-
jection of Great Manitou Island, lying to the
N. E., has, by the same authority, been named
Lake Iroquois, and, by others, the Georgian Bay.
A considerable arm of the lake, also, on the
S. W., stretching into the gtate of Michigan, has
received the name of Saginaw Bay. Irrespec-
tive of these different sections, Huron Proper
lies nearly in the form of a crescent, stretching
from the Straits of Michilimackinac to the head
of the River St. Clair, a distance, upon the middle
curve, of 260 miles. The greatest breadth, inde-
pendent of the bays, is about 70 miles, and the
superficial extent about 20,000 square miles.
The depth of this portion of the lake is very
great, being at least 1000 feet deep towards the
W. shore, which is its deepest part. Like all the
other lakes, however, it is generally shallow near
the shores, though it has several fine harbors.

It receives the waters of Lake Superior through
St. Mary's Strait, and those of Lake Michigan
through the Straits of Michilimackinac, and
discharges its own waters, through the River
St. Clair, into Lake Erie. The waters also of
several small lakes are received from the N. W.,
the principal of which are Lake Nipissing and
Lake Simcoe, which empty themselves, by rivers
of a few miles' extent, into the Georgian Bay.
This bay, or lake, as it might be separately
regarded, lies nearly in the form of an ellipse,
connected \frith the body of Lake Huron, and
with Manitou Bay, at its N. W. extremity. It
is 140 miles long by 70 miles wide, having an
area of about 7000 square miles. Manitou Bay,
which is that section of the lake lying directly
N. of the great chain of islands, is in length, from
E. to W., 80 miles, with an average breadth of
20 miles. Its area is about 1600 square miles.
Taken in its whole extent, as including the sec-
tions here described, with the islands between
them, Lake Huron covers an area of nearly

29,000 square miles. The number of islands in
Lake Huron is very great. Among them, the
chain which has been already mentioned, retain-
ing their Indian name of Manitou (Great Spirit)
Islands, includes all which are worthy of special
notice. These are divided into the Great Mani-
tou and Little Manitou Islands, besides which,
at the W. extremity of the chain, is one which is
called Drummond's Island. Great Manitou is
much the largest of the series, being in length
about 90 miles, E. and W., and in breadth, in
the widest part, about 30 miles. The boundary
between the United States and Canada passes
along the middle of Huron Proper from the
outlet of St. Clair River 225 miles, and thence,
between Drummond and Little Manitou Islands,
and over the W. end of Manitou Bay, to the in-
flux of the N. branch of St. Mary's River. This ,
lake holds a very important position as a com-
mercial link in the chain of internal navigation.
The main lake opens a spacious communication
from Lake Erie, both into Lake Superior and
Lake Michigan; and being connected with a
series of smaller lakes and rivers, extending from
the S. E. angle of the Georgian Bay almost to
the N. W. angle of Lake Ontario, it affords great
facilities for completing a separate and much
shorter channel of transportation between the
ports of Lake Ontario and those of Michigan
and Superior. An expenditure, comparatively
moderate in improvements of this kind, might
reduce the distance full one half between the
head of the River St. Lawrence and the head of
Lake Huron. This is a matter which has long
ago attracted attention, and which, in this age
of commercial enterprise, may not improbably
ere long be acted upon.

Huron River, O. This river rises in Richland
co., flows through Huron and Erie counties, and
falls into Lake Erie at Huron. It is navigable
6 or 7 miles.

Huron River, Mn., rises in Oakland and Liv-
ingston counties, and flows 90 miles, to its
entrance into Lake Erie, below the mouth of De-
troit River. This river and its branches afford
extensive water privileges.

Huron River, Houghton co., Mn. This small
stream flows N., and empties into Lake Superior
E. from Huron Bay.

Hurricane Creek, Stewart co., Te., empties into
the Tennessee River.