ST. LAWRENCE

a large river of N. of from the lake of Ontario, of America, i ues Great Lakes, whose square and is fed by the are taken to the Atlantic in surplus waters a N.E. course of 700 m. The St. makes after Louis river, which flows into Lake Superior near Duluth, is accounted its Tt and the length from the sions, head waters; of this river to the Gulf of St. boots source Lawrence is about 2,200 m., and the goods, width of its estuary near Cape Gaspé is bile 100 m. The chief tributaries are Nearly over the Ottawa, the Saguenay, and the St. in ‘The cities of Montreal and The Maurice. stand on its banks. Except in with Quebec winter, from December to April, front. the navigation is closed by the ice, by when can ascend to Montreal, of large ve els ve els of moderate draught (14 ft. in and 15 ft.) can reach Lake Superior by The to and Sault Ste. Marie canals, in the Well and thus avoiding the cataracts. Anti cost i ipal Is. lies in the estuary. There are numerspans islands in the lake-like expansions Quebec and Lake Ontario, rapids at Lachine and Long Sault. total drainage area, including the Lakes system, is computed at 500,000 sq.m. From the St. Louis the Gulf of St. Lawrence the fail is 600 miles. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY, a co-educational institution founded in in Canton, N.Y. It has a college letters and science, a theological a law school, and its agricultural department is the New York state school agriculture. Each department is independent of the other in finance and its faculty. ‘The school of theology ministers for the Universalist In 1921-22 its combined facnumbered 76 members and its students 1,172. Brit. statesman; as Lord Deputy Ireland, 1540-51, 1553-56, he con introduction of Eng. land tenure; of Act by which Henry VIII. declared king of Ireland. 1’ N., 1° 9’ H.), village, ancient contains cathedral and episcopal palace. on Vire, capital Manche, France; manufactures cloth. Pop. 12,300.