* Lake Sagihaiga takes* !its mames from itSitiUhaefbus Iflands. Its greateft
lengthfiom E'a# to Weft is about fourteen -miles; with Very irregular
inlets, is hoWheie rhore than three miles wide; and terminatesfiat the fmalk
poita^bF-La Roche/%f Tdrtf4 hrde paees^ .From -thence.ds ;&?rocky,?
fton'y paftage*ofbhe mile, to Pi'iatie Portage, which is -very-improperly,
named' as!there is nb ground about it that'-’anfwerS'1 to^that fdefcrip'i
fehSllJ'T|)6t’%tdthe embarking ^ftafee^atofcfae* Wef| end:
to the';Ekft? S'an'etAife Fbgy^ahd W is with great 'difficulty that the
lading ran be landed upon ftages/formed by driviflg piles- into the mud,‘
and fpfeftdirig branehek of treesoverthem. The pottage rifes* on a ftony-'
ridge; OYer Whichi the rtfahOe 'ahd cargo iriufh be‘carried for fix hundred
afnd ‘eleven1 pacdsi This is fueceeded h y ’&hKembdrkatibn on a Small
bay, whdre the bottom is the fame as has been! defc-ribed in the Weft end
df Rofe Lake, and it is with great difficulty that a laden canoe is worked
over it, but it does not comprehend more than a distance bf tWo hundred
yards.‘ From hence the progrefs continues through' irregular fcfeahaels;
bounded by rocks, in a Wefterly dourfe for about five miles, to the little
Portage des Couteaux, of one hundred and fixty-five^ paces, and the
Lac des Couteaux,, ronning about South-Weft .by Weft » twelve miles,
and from a quarter to two miles -wide. A deep bay mns EafttKree
miles from the Weft end, where it is difchargad /by; a rapid river,: and
after running two miles Weft, it again becomes itill water. In, this river
are two carrying-places, the one- fifteen, and the other one hundred
and ninety paces. From this to thejPoriage des Carpes is one mile North-
Weft, leaving a narrow lake on the Eaft that runs parallel with the
Lake des Couteaux, half its length, where there is. a carrying-place, whifch
is .ufed when the water in the river laft mentioned is too low. The
Portage
Portage ides Carpes is three-hundred and ninety paoes, from whence the
waty*r; fpreads irregalariyf .between; rocks, five miles rNorth-Weft and
Soudi-Eaft teithb;portage o f L#c ffesis ^agc^wln§fi:fSbone hundred and
eighty paoesd -tjaaf ®&m&, \b,ut I think timprqperiy
:Ib> called;., as; ;the| nat-iv§Sr name it the LakeyPafcau Minac
Snga%atm nts-IDly Berries. >e
, iiBjofoceithe ffoiaU' pc$* ravaged this country, and completed, what the
Nedtjiwafi^ injtbgir ha4 go&e
tion of its inhabitants, the p^pi^ntiom#^
a favourite part,* where -they made their canoes,' $&ci the lake abounding
in fift, the country round it being plentifully fupplied with various kinds
of games 4;»d ;thsf|oe.ky ridge^ that; form b^uiidaxies, o f the water,
covered witlr a variety of berries,
* When the French; were m ;peiffc|5on o f tfp&,490UflJ;ry, they fiad feveral
fmding: eftrftiliftiment^ omtbg; iflands, aud-il^^^of lthis ,§ince that
period, the few people remaining, who were of the nation,
could hardly find fubfiftence; game haying become fo fearce, that they
depended principally for food upon fiffi, and wild rice which grows
fpontanaoufty in tfeefe parts. ; v
■ i This, lake is . irregular in its form, apd its ?utmoft extent fr-om filaft to.
Weft as ififteen.miles ; a peidt-fofland, calledrR©jnt,au Pin, jutting into it
divided kari tw d ip k r ts it ffeen mafeets,«a,^§ostd,)a# ^ ahthe W^ft $hdi]to
the lefferiPofitage de RoisfUahjc,'two,hundreds gaises,in; feagth. This channel
is^not wide* -and; is* intercepted by f&veral rapids m the courfe c f.a
mile;