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. THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT, 143 distance of 120 miles, to which place the St. Joseph River is navigable. 3 St. Joseph River rises in the southern portion of Michigan and Northern Indiana, and is about 250 miles long. Its general course is nearly westward ; is very serpentine, with an equable current, and flowing through a fertile section of country, celebrated alike for the raising of grain and different kinds of fruit. There are to be found several flourishing villages on its banks. The principal are Con- stantine, Elkhart, South Bend and Niles. | Nines, situated on St. Joseph River, is 26 miles above its mouth by land, and 191 miles from Detroit by railroad route. This is a flourishing village, containing about 3,000 inhabitants, five churches, three hotels, several large stores and flouring mills ; the country around producing large quantities of wheat and other kinds of grain. A small class of steamers run to St. Joseph below and other places above, on the river, affording great facilities to trade in this section of country. Souta Haven, Van Buren Co., lies at the mouth of Black River. Naptes, Allegan Co., lies on the east side of Lake Michigan, near the mouth of the Kalamazoo River, AmsTERDAM, Ottawa Co., is a small village lying near the lake shore, about 20 miles south of Grand Haven. Hoan, situated on Black Lake, a few miles above Amster- dam, is a thriving town, settled mostly by Hollanders, Here is a good and spacious harbor. The counties of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, Kalamazoo, Alle- gan, Kent, and Ottawa are all celebrated as a fruit-bearing region, The Ports extending from Grand Haven to Saginaw Bay are fully described in another portion of this work, as well.as the bays and rivers falling into Lakes Michigan and Huron. GEORGIAN BAY. The deeply romantic character of this pure and lovely body of water is almost unknown to the American public--lying as it does _ to the northeast of Lake Huron, being entirely within the confines of Canada. The northeast shore is the most romantic and highly in-