St Clair, a navigable river of North America, in the line of the Great Lakes, and carrying (225,000 cubic feet per second) into Lake St Clair the waters of Lake Huron. It is over 40 miles long, and half a mile broad. In 1891 a railway tunnel under its bed was completed between Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia, Ontario, 20 feet in diameter, and 6026 (including excavated approaches, 11,553) feet long. Lake St Clair is 26 miles long and 25 wide, has an area of 410 sq. m., and from its south-west end passes the volume of water it has received into Lake Erie by means of the Detroit.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 83
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