Portage of . the two rivers, M k h i'is afcjoijt ( eight .hundred. .amLsfewenty
P,aces; Aon? thence .it L three; leagues to the Décharges of the Trou,
whiçh isthreeLundrqd, paces. ..Near adjadnipgif the r^pid.qf Levelher ;
froi9 r Ah®; rapids; oFiMatawpeq^Mpgri therfriis op
.indaiitudfe^L ^c^thjiand longitude Weft*
Q.ffouar buneLrpcJ miles from .MpgtreaL A t this.pl^rp the Petite
; jnto the Utawas. : The ..latter, comes la a North-Wefterly
^ e.^iSI9vfor“ mg; feveral lakes in its epurfe- The principal of them is
Lake Te^efcaipang, where foere has a lw ^ heen a trading poftj, which
^ hy a fucceffion, o f fivers- and Iakes^upwa’rds;of
fifty leagues .from .the Forks,, paffing near the jwatèrç^f the Lake
Afibitiby, in latitode^8|-,|which is received L y tfie Moof'e River, that
empties itfelf into James Bay.
The Petite Riviere takes a South-Weft direction, is full of rapidsand
eatarafifs to its fource, and is not more than fifteen leagues in length,, ia
the courfe of which are the following interruptions— Thp -Portage of
Plein Champ, three hundred and nineteen paces; the Décharge of the
Rofe, one hundred and forty,five paces; the Décharge of Campion, one
hundred and eighty-fopr paces ;,the Portage o f the-Greffe Roche, one
hundred and fifty paces;, the Portage, of Pareffeux, four hundred and
two jjac^; «%portage qÇPriarie^two, hundred andjfigbty-feven paces.;
the Portageqf, La C^ve,one hundred paces ; Portage of Talon, two
hundred and feventy-fiye. paces ; which, for its length, is the worft on
the communication;, Portage Pin de Mufique, four hundred and fifty-
fix papes, where many men have been crulhed to death by the
canoes.
èanoesl'andbttórs^havë'rècèi^ed irrecövefable • injuries. The laft in this
rive* is the Turtle Portage,- eightÿ-ihreé paces^on entering the lake of
thàt Mme, where, i M & d / t e i M M s M i takélts fource. From
theifirft vaTe fóHhteJgrfea« rivfer,teëôîiëtf^ Kaà*the appearance of having
bèen; ôvef-rù^by&e^'îi®d«iB^Bfift# .ibigéüèfàf ö f hiàgë roékÿ hills. The
Mole diftàflëèMirifaïisi MolieighL b ff làn,d, feëilv-éëri the waters o f ther
St. 'L4 ms^ce^ndidiei©tawi^isPè^'''iÉomsÉÉ^^höii'dted arid thirteen
psaCess t<a'a$final! tcanaFin a ïüffi&éhT'td tamy-the
loaded canóe abouti one mile to. the next vafë, which is Teven hundred1
and twenty-five paces. It would be twice this diftance, brit the narrow
creek is dammed* in the beaver fafhion; to float the canoes td this barrier,
through which- they pafs, when the'river is juft fufficient to bear them
through a fwamp of two miles to the lafLVafe, of öne thoüfand
and twenty-four paces in length. Though the river is increafed in this
part, fome care is necelfary to avoid rocks and flumps o f trees. In about
fix miles sis the* lake Ffepifii^guiy which is computed to he twelve leagues
long, though the route o f the canoes is fomething more : it is about fiL
teen miles wide in the wideft part, and bounded with rocks. Its inhabitants
Confift; o f the remainder o f a numerous converted tribe, called
Nepifinguis o f the Algonquin nation. * Out o f it flows the ' Riviere des
François, over; rocks Ofa corifiderâblë height. In a bay to the Éaft o f
this, the road leads over the Portage of the Chaudière des François, five*
hundred and forty-four paées, to t i l l Water. It muft hâve acquired the
name öf Kettle, from a great number o f holes iff * the folid'foek of a
cylindrical form,; and not uftlike that culiftary: utenfilv "they arè Obferv-
ablé in mariy parts alo'ng ftrong bodies of Water/ arid where, atcèrtàm
feafonsyand iSfoaEt- periods, itris-welliknowritheewater 'inundated; at
e 2 the